Western Australia’s largest and newest solar farm will provide around half of all of the energy needs at mining giant BHP’s West Kwinana refinery, it has been announced. The Merredin solar farm has signed a 10-year contract that will see around 364,000 tonnes of CO2 cut from the nickel refinery’s operations as BHP continues its global push […]
Australia’s largest solar farm to power BHP’s Nickel West
Yesterday BHP announced that it signed a renewable power purchasing agreement to supply up to 50 per cent of its electricity needs at the Kwinana Refinery from Merredin Solar Farm – the largest in Western Australia. BHP said that the agreement would help BHP reduce emissions from electricity use at the refinery by up to […]