Srisa and Amanda always wanted to switch to solar. It took losing everything to make it happen

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After last summer's bushfires wiped out thousands of power poles, new systems are replacing the old way of supplying electricity. With energy companies leading the way, will regulations catch up?

Across Australia, a quiet revolution is happening in Australian electricity networks.

"For the rest of the Australian eastern seaboard, the idea of SAPS being provided by networks is still in its infancy."Power lines to remote areas are expensive to maintain and pose an ongoing bushfire threat. Amanda Heffernan-Buchan says she looked up to see the ridge aglow with fire on the morning her home was destroyed.

As communities scrambled to survive, large swathes of electricity infrastructure were also destroyed.

 

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