By Sonali Paul
MELBOURNE – International miner Rio Tinto has acquired a number of gives to construct 4 gigawatts (GW) of wind and photo voltaic farms to energy its alumina and aluminium operations in Australia’s Queensland state, the corporate’s Australia head mentioned on Friday.
Rio Tinto Chief Government Officer Australia Kellie Parker mentioned the corporate, the nation’s greatest single energy person, had acquired proposals for “much more than the 4 GW” that it requested for in its name for proposals key to slashing its carbon emissions.
Rio Tinto mentioned in June its Boyne aluminium smelter, Yarwun alumina refinery and Queensland Alumina refinery want a mixed 1,140 megawatts (MW) of dependable energy, and was looking for gives to construct no less than 4,000 MW, or 4 GW, of wind and solar energy backed up by vitality storage which might be required to produce regular energy.
Parker, nevertheless, gave no value estimate for the tasks on Friday.
“All of us perceive that Australia stays an costly location to construct, so it received’t be straightforward,” she mentioned in a speech to the Melbourne Mining Membership.
A number of points have to be sorted out earlier than the huge construct of renewables – equal to greater than a 3rd of the whole wind and photo voltaic capability Australia already has – might go forward.
“A coordinated grid answer in Queensland might be vital and requires the collaboration of suppliers, customers, regulators, transmission suppliers and policymakers. Expertise may even play an essential position,” Parker mentioned.
The corporate had but to resolve what position it will play within the technology or provide of renewable vitality because the proposals it had acquired concerned it being proprietor, operator, companion, investor and buyer for the tasks, she mentioned.
(This story refiles to right typographical error in headline)
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