Gold Fields Archives - Renew Economy

Renewables

Ground-breaking solar and battery microgrid to double in capacity at WA gold mine
Global mining giant circles back to its first ever large-scale solar and battery microgrid project to more than double its renewable generation capacity.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 29, 2024

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Smart Energy

Australia’s biggest renewable microgrid powers gold mine up to 85%
Ground-breaking microgrid combines wind, solar and battery storage to power WA gold mine with up to 85% renewables penetration.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 5, 2021

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Press Releases

Renewable energy scores top honours at Resources Sector Awards
Gold Fields Australia and EDL won the Golden Gecko award for environmental excellence for their Agnew Hybrid Renewable project in Leinster, Western Australia.
Press Release

Oct 1, 2021

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Renewables

Solar and battery microgrid completed at Granny Smith gold mine
Ground-breaking solar, battery and gas microgrid built to power remote W.A. gold mine is complete and cutting fossil fuel consumption by up to 13%.
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 8, 2020

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Renewables

Gold Fields eyes wind energy “bolt on” at Granny Smith mine
Global gold miner says it’s looking to “bolt-on” renewables at more of its Western Australian mining operations, including the addition of wind turbines at Granny Smith.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 6, 2020

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Wind

Wind turbines completed at ground-breaking W.A. gold mine microgrid
Five wind turbines installed at Angew gold mine in W.A. – Australia’s first mining sector project to use wind power as part of a large hybrid renewable microgid.
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 27, 2020

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Huge turbine parts complete 630km truck journey to W.A. wind, solar microgrid
Australia’s first mining sector project to combine wind, solar and batteries in one microgid is starting to take shape in Western Australia’s northern goldfields region.
Sophie Vorrath

Dec 5, 2019

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Renewables

Wind, solar and battery microgrid at W.A. gold mine an “Australian first”
A remote Western Australia gold mine has won $13.5m in ARENA funding to add 18MW of wind power to a 23MW solar, battery and gas microgrid.
Sophie Vorrath

Jun 20, 2019

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