The familiar narrative of Australia's energy transition often involves conflict: coal jobs versus green energy, economic security versus environmental responsibility. But in the Singleton Council area, a different kind of story is emerging, one where a coal company is not resisting the future-it is building it.

The Bloomfield Group, a long-established name in the coal sector, is making a striking pivot. On buffer land adjacent to its Rix's Creek North (RCN) mine, the company is preparing to construct and operate the RCN Solar Farm, a 5MW facility designed to reduce its own operational emissions and, more critically, to retrain its workforce in the renewable energy sector.

This wasn't an announcement made in a corporate press conference, but rather a quiet detail slipped into a community

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