Featured in Solar Speaks – 08-2016

Mining with sunshine

Offgrid PV+storage: Over 30,000 modules mounted on dual axis trackers sit above the iconic red earth in remote Western Australia. With the closest town of 1,000 people 150 km away and the nearest sizeable city 900 km, the project is about as off-the-grid as it gets. But it could be pointing the way forward for industrial solar+storage applications in Australia and beyond.

By

Jonathan Gifford

20 Jul 2016

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Ray Wills is a man of considerable intellect and endless enthusiasm. Based in Western Australia, he has advocated the opportunities for solar and storage in supplying remote mine sites with reliable and clean electricity for a number of years. “Gigawatts of opportunities,” is how he describes it, having crunched the numbers. Wills is familiar with …

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