The rat who decided to take charge of the renewable energy project in the sewers was called Rani. He was a middle-aged rat who lived beneath the store in question and who had experience with the electricity that all the rats currently used. Rani often ventured to the surface, hiding in the walls and the pipes to listen to the humans explain clean energy to their customers. To Rani, it seemed like a pretty simple process. And he supposed to a human, especially to a human who worked for one of Australia’s best energy solution providers, it would be easy. Those people would have all of the materials they needed, and a blueprint to follow to provide both residential and commercial customers with the best value they could get in the current market.
Although Rani understood exactly how to install solar panels and the theory behind wind energy, as a rat, he didn’t have access to nearly as many materials as the humans above the surface did. The rats had to scavenge for scraps so as not to arouse suspicion. The humans would certainly notice if their entire ceiling went missing, but they probably wouldn’t notice if a small chunk of wood from the corner of their window disappeared.
Rani knew that one of the big promotions happening at the moment was the NSW Energy Savings Scheme, which was a way to help businesses understand the importance of renewable energy and also help them transition to a cleaner power source. This meant that there would be lots of good materials he could use to help the rats build their new energy system; he just had to figure out how to swipe a few things without drawing attention to himself. Perhaps most of all, the rats would need enough materials to cover the whole Sydney sewer system. That would be the most difficult part, and something Rani was quite nervous about. There was only one person in all of the sewers who would know the answer, and that was a rat in the southern sewers named Remy.