New Solar Farms at Nickel West
BHP and its power partner in the Goldfields, TransAlta, are to build two solar farms and a battery storage system to help power the Mt Keith and Leinster operations. This will help BHP reduce emissions from electricity use at Mt Keith and Leinster by 12%, based on FY2020 levels. The Northern Goldfields Solar Project will include a 27.4MW solar farm at Mt Keith and a 10.7 MWsolar farm and 10.1MW battery at Leinster, and will displace power currently supplied by diesel and gas turbine generation. This will result in an estimated reduction of 540,000t of CO2e over the first 10 years of operation. This is the equivalent of removing up to 23,000 combustion engine cars from the road every year.…