Image: IGO Limited via Twitter.
Two new battery projects announced this week will see mining sites in Western Australia and the South American nation of Suriname greatly reduce their dependency on fossil fuel generation.
Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed metals extraction and processing company IGO Limited said today that solar-plus-storage will be installed at its Nova copper-cobalt-nickel mining facility in Western Australia’s Fraser Range.
In a tweet, IGO said the clean energy resources will enable the site to “operate for periods of time on 100% renewable energy”.
Partner Zenith Energy, a remote power solutions specialist, said in a corporate blog post that the addition of 10MW of solar PV and a 10MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) to existing onsite equipment will enable the mine to run continuously on renewable energy for up to nine…