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Kat Wong

Turn wind into jobs with local turbine tower production

Local construction of wind towers could generate thousands of jobs in Australia. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Australia could create thousands of jobs and transition workers out of the fossil fuel industry if wind towers were produced at home, a research group says.

Wind energy is one of Australia's main renewables and generates enough electricity to meet seven per cent of the nation's demand.

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