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RENEWABLE
ENERGY
ust over one year ago, piling completed for
the Queensland Cannington mine, operated
under the mining and metals company South32.
This was Australia’s first hybrid gas-fired power
station, and second largest solar hybrid system.
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The solar PV set-up was built by SunSHIFT, a subsidiary of
Laing O’Rourke. It is the world’s first pre-fabricated modular
and movable solar power plant for large-scale, on and offgrid electricity generation. This means it can be moved from
project to project, as required.
Cannington Mine, McKinlay,
Queensland, Australia
Installation time
The 3MW solar farm took three people three weeks to install.
A record-breaking installation rate – fully demonstrating the
system’s ability to be fully and quickly relocated in the future.
Thanks to the solar panels, the hybrid plant will see a yearly
reduction of 3,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide, demonstrating
a workable way that the mining industry can have access
to low cost renewable energy.
In May 2018, SunSHIFT signed a 14-year contract with South32.
Once that 14 years is up, the entire farm can be picked up
and shifted elsewhere with ease.
3 weeks
Annual C02 reduction
3000t
Workforce
3