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Tiny south Pacific country of Tokelau goes off-grid with a 1MW solar system

No man is an island, John Donne intoned. One might infer the famously bawdy poet turned Bishop meant self-sustainability is no mean feat - something The Tank can agree with, considering our latest attempt...

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