'Way off the planet': regional businesses use renewables to slash costs

From solar to running generators, some have quit the energy grid and several others are showing interest in 'defecting'

In the heart of Queensland's mining belt, a businessman who has grown his enterprise mostly off the back of the coal industry sees the energy sector going only one way.

"I think renewable energy is where the market's going - what we class as the energy revolution," says Jason Sharam.