Australia’s New South Wales state government has announced an $82 million road and highway upgrade intended to enable transport of extra-size wind turbines, and other oversize equipment (namely 80-meter-long turbines and multi-hundred-ton transformers), to the state’s planned Renewable Energy Zones. These Zones will see vast fields of multi-GW solar and wind complexes brought online over the next few decades across the far-flung southern hinterland, also feeding power into neighboring Victoria and South Australia states. NSW and Victoria remain heavily coal-dependent in their energy mix at present. The road upgrade program is called “Port to REZ”, with the first stage extending from the port town of Newcastle up inland to the Central-West Orana REZ. China’s Sichuan Province has announced that pumped…