Rio Tinto puts out 1148MW Oz solar, wind phone call

• The large-scale renewables projects are required to power three aluminium plants in Queensland

Mining large Rio Tinto has released an official market request for proposal (RfP) for large-scale wind and also solar projects in the Australian state of Queensland to power its aluminium assets.

The assets call for 1140MW of trusted power to run, which corresponds to at the very least 4GW of wind or solar power with firming, the business claimed.

The projects will certainly likewise help fulfill its climate modification aspirations and also additional motivate eco-friendly development as well as market in the area, it said.

The RfP is for projects to be integrated in central as well as southerly Queensland that can start supplying power to the Boyne smelter and Yarwun as well as Queensland alumina refineries with the state's grid by 2030.

Rio Tinto Aluminium chief executive Ivan Vella said: "As Queensland's largest energy customer, we have a crucial function to play in driving the advancement of affordable renewable resource sources for our Gladstone properties and also sustaining the State's renewable resource targets.

" It is early while doing so, however this is a crucial step in the direction of conference both our Group climate change target of halving our emissions by the end of the decade as well as our commitment to net no emissions by 2050."

The RfP complies with Rio Tinto's October 2021 fortifying of its climate commitments, including a target to cut in half scope one and also 2 emissions by 2030 from a 2018 baseline and also the search of renewable power alternatives for its Australian aluminium smelters.

It likewise adheres to the finalizing of a Statement of Co-operation with the Queensland federal government to work towards establishing more renewable resource in main Queensland.

Additional news on the RfP will be made when suitable, the firm claimed.