Gold Fields taps APA Group to add 13MW solar and 4.4MW/4.4MWh battery storage to existing gas power facility at its jointly owned Gruyere gold mine in W.A.
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Australia’s first remote, renewable hydrogen microgrid wins ARENA backing
Horizon Power W.A. plans to build Australia’s first remote microgrid using renewable hydrogen generation have won funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
Ground-breaking solar microgrid completed at Granny Smith gold mine
Ground-breaking solar, battery and gas microgrid built to power remote W.A. gold mine is complete and cutting fossil fuel consumption by up to 13%.
Australia’s secretive defence operations HQ to get 1.9MW solar farm
Australia’s secretive defence operations headquarters, HQJOC, set to be solar powered with 1.9MW solar farm.
Microgrid feasibility funding awarded to 17 projects in round one of federal scheme
First-round winners of $50.4m Regional and Remote Communities Reliability Fund include microgrids for indigenous communities, farmers, regional towns and industrial parks.
Australia’s distributed solar faces blunt options without the right data
To date, there hasn’t been a framework in place to take advantage of solar and/or storage that is ready to play a more sophisticated part in the grid’s operation.
Solar and battery storage to power Western Australia rare earths mine
Northern Minerals has signed a PPA with Soluna Australia for 100kW solar, 200kWh battery system to help power its Brown’s Range rare earths mine in W.A.’s east Kimberley region.
Power Ledger to deliver blockchain solar microgrids to 10 Perth apartment buildings
Connected Communities deal to start with 62-apartment complex in Inglewood, made 100% renewable through embedded network of solar and storage.
West Australia puts community batteries at top of new energy roadmap
W.A. unveils new energy roadmap focusing on rooftop solar, batteries and EVs, and will roll out ten “neighbourhood” batteries in and around Perth before end of the year.
Wind turbines installed at ground-breaking W.A. gold mine microgrid
All five wind turbines installed at Angew gold mine in Western Australia – Australia’s first mining sector project to use wind power as part of a large hybrid renewable microgrid.