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The 'secret sauce' behind the tiny town that's cracked Australia's energy problem

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Drive through Yackandandah on a clear day, and you'll notice the rooftops before anything else. House after house topped with solar panels.

On the main street of this small tourist town in Victoria's north-east, Teslas and Nissan Leafs are parked outside the pie shop.

There's a community-owned electric vehicle charger around the corner, funded by the town's own petrol station. The postie delivers his mail on an electric bike. You might even spot a car driving around with a solar panel mounted on its roof.

Adapt or Perish: How this small town turned a threat into their greatest asset

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KiloWatt Cars owner Russell Klose at his property in Yackandandah. Credit: Alexandra Koster / SBS

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"When you go through Yackandandah, there's the bottom garage, it's called Yackandandah Motors. That's what it used to be called, and that was my garage for many years, and before that it was my father's garage. So I grew up looking after agricultural equipment, fixing cars, trucks out the front that would break down on the way to market with cows inside, pissing on me while I was under the truck and whatnot. So that has been where I came from."

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