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"Australian mining giant Fortescue is proposing to construct a huge 2.1
gigawatt (GW) wind farm and battery energy storage system (BESS) to help
eliminate the burning of fossil fuels at its giant Pilbara iron ore operations.
The 2.1 GW facility would be the biggest wind farm in Australia if built now,
and is part of the company’s plans to reach “real zero” at its iron ore mining
operations, which means eliminating the use of fossil gas or diesel for
terrestrial transport and power at those facilities.
The company is already sourcing some of its mining power needs from solar farms
at Chichester (60 MW) and North Star (100 MW), and has recently begun
construction of a 190 MW solar farm at Cloudbreak and also unveiled plans for a
660 MW solar facility at Turner River, south of Port Hedland.
Fortescue has also signed a $4 billion contract to deploy hundreds of giant
electric haul trucks, bulldozers, excavators and other mining equipment to
eliminate the use of diesel.
The 2.1 GW wind facility is part of Fortescue’s planned East Pilbara Generation
Hub (EPGH), which will support its mining operations at its new Iron Bridge
mine located approximately 40km southeast of Marble Bar in Pilbara, WA.
The company submitted initial environmental permitting documents with WA’s
Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) on Friday, which are now subject to a
seven-day public comment period.
The hub will comprise up to 200 individual wind turbines and five substations
located across 2,318 hectares of land, connecting to the company’s magnetite
mining site via a 220kV transmission line."
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
