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"The solar farm at North Star Junction is not what you’d call a standard
project.
Spinifex and plains grasses grow high under the panels in some places. Every so
often, a taller, tree-like shrub peeks out and over-shadows a row.
The 100 megawatt (MW) solar farm, built on the undulating curves of a former
work site, was finished in 2024 and is iron ore miner Fortescue’s first foray
into large scale solar.
The lesson learned is that it’s easier to build solar than, basically, anything
else.
“It’s so simple,” Fortescue CEO Dino Otranto tells
Renew Economy.
“Put a tracker on it, put a panel on and then it’s rinse and repeat. We do that
1,000, sometimes 3,000 times a day.
“It’s a fraction of the workforce [compared to building a mine].”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
