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"Western Australia gold miner Bellevue has claimed a new record for renewables
production at an off-grid facility, saying it had achieved 101 consecutive
hours of 100 per cent renewables and with its fossil fuel engines off.
The new achievement, reached earlier this month, beats the previous record of
84 hours reported on this web site in September, and is believed to be a record
for any off-grid facility of this size.
Bellevue Gold has installed one of the world’s biggest off-grid arrays, with 24
megawatts (MW) of wind, 27 megawatts of solar and a 15 MW, 30 MWh battery,
supported by 9 MW of diesel capacity and 15 MW of gas capacity. It has an
average load of 12 MW from its mining and processing facilities.
The wind turbines only started production in May, but the company has already
achieved months of more than 90 per cent average renewables penetration.
“Renewable energy penetration is currently sitting comfortably at the upper end
of the targeted renewable energy penetration rate of 80-90 per cent, and
aligned to the forecast of being the most renewably powered off-grid mine in
Australia,” the company said in a statement to the ASX on Thursday.
“The December 2025 quarter should see further benefit from higher contributions
from the solar farm and wind farm, as we head into summer, which is also the
windiest period of the year. This is expected to further reduce the use of
diesel and LNG in the power station.”"
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
