Zenith Energy and Northern Star have announced a long-term agreement for the supply of electricity to Northern’s Jundee Operations. This agreement involves the incorporation of 40MW of wind and solar energy generation using a combination of wind turbines, solar panels, and a battery system that would be installed and integrated into the existing gas power station Read More
NextSource Materials Inc. has completed the construction of a solar farm for the solar hybrid power plant at its Molo Graphite mine in Madagascar. The Solar Hybrid Plant, owned and operated by CrossBoundary Energy (CBE) under a 20-year PPA, includes a 2.6 MW solar farm, a 3.1 MW thermal facility, and a 1 MWh battery energy Read More
Calidus Resources, which owns the Warrawoona Gold Project located in the East Pilbara district of the Pilbara Goldfield in Western Australia, is on track to become Australia’s next gold producer in the June quarter of 2022. The company announced Monday its agreement with Zenith Pacific for the construction of a 4MW solar farm with 3.5MW battery Read More
BHP, the world’s largest mining company, has awarded Southern Cross Energy, a TransAlta Renewables subsidiary, the contract to build, own, and operate the Northern Goldfields Solar Project (“Project”) for the supply of renewable solar electricity to BHP’s Goldfields-based Nickel West operations in Western Australia. The Project, to cost A$73 million (US$54 million), comprises the 27.4MW Mount Read More
NRW Holdings will build a 34 MW solar farm with a 12 MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage system at mining conglomerate Rio Tinto’s 43 Mt Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in Western Australia. Announcing the win of the US$44 million EPC contract from Rio Tinto, NRW chief executive and managing director Jules Pemberton said renewable energy represented Read More
Red 5 Limited, which is constructing a 4 Mtpa King of the Hills (KOTH) gold mine in Western Australia, has entered a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Zenith Energy for a hybrid energy installation at the project. Zenith Pacific (KOTH) Pty Ltd (Zenith), a subsidiary of Zenith Energy Limited, will build, own and operate the power Read More
Contract Power Australia Pty Ltd will build, own and operate an integrated hybrid power generation facility at the Abra Base Metals Project majority-owned by Galena Mining Ltd. The low-emissions, cost-effective power facility will comprise a 10MW natural gas-fired power station, a 6MW solar array, 2MW of battery energy storage, and a 900Kl LNG storage and regasification Read More
Soluna Australia, the energy storage division of Lithium Australia, has executed a Letter of Intent with Northern Minerals to supply the latter’s heavy rare earths mine at Browns Range in Western Australia with a renewable energy system including battery storage. Currently, the mining project depends on expensive and polluting, off-grid diesel generation to power its processing Read More
Wärtsilä Energy Business, which leads the transition to a 100% renewable future, has researched hydrogen as a fuel for two decades. It said it is developing its combustion gas engines to run on 100% hydrogen fuel and has already tested its engines to run on a 60:40 mix of hydrogen and natural gas according to International Read More
The incentive for a mine to reduce its carbon footprint has received a shot in the arm from the relentlessly declining costs of wind, solar, and energy storage, says Greentech Media. Projections by Wood Mackenzie show the cost of energy storage in 2022 will be 61 percent less than what prevailed in 2013, while the cost Read More
