Port Augusta 'busting a gut' to reinvent itself as a solar city when coal-fired power is switched off

As the deadline for power stations to shut down approaches, the community rallies around a future in renewable solar energy

Each day a trainload of coal rolls into the South Australian town of Port Augusta, where it is burned and turned into electricity. But these days that coal is shipped from a mine that is no longer digging. It is burned at a power plant that is about to be demolished.

Port Augusta is the fabled canary in the coalmine - a coal town teetering on a precipice as it transitions away from fossil fuels.