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French EPC major Neoen, which has been active in Australia with big battery and renewables contracts, has opted for a combination of wind and big battery for the first time to give baseload powr. The baseload contract has actually been signed with mining huge BHP for its Ausralian mines

Construction has started on BHP's "first off-grid large-scale renewable resource project", completing 38 MW of solar energy and a 10.1 MW/5.4 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS), at 2 nickel mines in Western Australia which supply Tesla for usage in electrical lorry (EV) batteries.

Mining titan BHP has actually appointed a 48.2 MW solar-plus-storage hybrid power center to assist power its Nickel West procedures. This will aid BHP minimize exhausts from electricity use at Mt Keith and Leinster by 12 percent, based on FY2020 levels, said the firm.

Anglo-Australian mining company BHP, in collaboration with Canada's TransAlta Renewables, is to develop two solar farms and also a battery storage system to help power its Mt Keith and Leinster nickel mines in Western Australia.