AGL Energy has begun generating power from the $150 million Broken Hill solar plant in western New South Wales, while its development partner First Solar has started delivering energy at a separate development at Rio Tinto’s Weipa bauxite mine, successfully displacing a polluting diesel generator for the first time in Australia.
The solar-diesel system will reduce Weipa's emissions by 6100 tonnes per annum. Photo: Courtesy Rio Tinto
The NASDAQ-listed First Solar, Rio Tinto and the Commonwealth’s Australian Renewable Energy Agency said the modest 1.7 megawatt solar plant at the remote minesite on the Western Cape York Peninsula would...
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