Northern Goldfields Solar Project
Australia
Work is underway on what BHP claims is one of the world ’ s largest off-grid mining solar and battery energy storage systems . Under the Northern Goldfields Solar Project , TransAlta is building a 27.4 MW solar farm at Mt Keith , 10.7MW solar farm and a 10.1 MW battery at Leinster , which will be integrated into the remote power grid and result in an estimated reduction of 54,000 tonnes CO2-e per year .
Image credit BHP
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