Application: mining (lithium mine)
Country: Australia
Location: Mount Cattlin
Renewable Energy: Wind & Solar
Type: wind-solar-diesel-hybrid
RE-capacity: 110 kWp solar & 6.4 kW wind
Status: commissioned in 2011
Operated by: Galaxy Resources
Installer / EPC: Swan Energy
Inverters:
Hybrid-controllers:
Modules/turbines:
Comment: mine was closed in 2013; supported by Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Source: ABC
Application: mining (opal mine)
Country: Australia
Location: Coober Pedy, SA
Renewable Energy: Wind & Solar
Type: wind-solar-diesel-hybrid
RE- capacity: 2 MWp PV, 3 MW wind
Status: completion is anticipated in mid-2017
Operated by: Energy Developments Limited (EDL)
Installer / EPC: Energy Developments Limited (EDL)
Inverters:
Modules/turbines:
Comment: Supported by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Source: ARENA
Application: mining (bauxite mine)
Country: Australia
Location: Weipa
Renewable Energy: PV
Type: PV-diesel-hybrid
RE-capacity: 1.7 MWp
Status: commsissioning planed for late 2014
Operated by: TAG / Ingenero / First Solar with 15 year PPA from Rio Tinto Alcan
Installer / EPC: TAG / Ingenero / First Solar
Inverters: SMA
Hybrid-controller: SMA
Modules: First Solar
Comment: retrofitted into complement existing diesel generation
Source: pv-magazine
Application: mining (chromium ore mine)
Country: South Africa
Location: North Western Bushveld Complex, Limpopo Province
Renewable energy: PV
Type: PV-diesel-hybrid
RE-capacity: 1 MWp
Status: Commissioned in 2012
Operated by: Cronimet Mining Power Solutions SA (Pty) Ltd.
Installer / EPC: Cronimet Mining Power Solutions SA (Pty) Ltd., formerly Solea Renewables (Pty) Ltd.
Inverters: SMA
Hybrid-controlllers: SMA
Modules: Jinko
Comment: PV-diesel hybrid solution achieves 60% PV penetration of the existing diesel genset mini-grid requiring no energy storage
Source: pv-magazine
Application: mining (gold mine)
Country: USA
Location: McCarran, NV
Renewable energy: PV
Type: auxiliary power
RE-capacity: 1.51 MWp
Commissioning: 2008
Operated by: Barrick Gold Corporation
Installer / EPC: Stellar Energy
Inverters: Satcon
Modules: Sharp
Comment: built due to legislational requirements, delivers electricity to the mine's natural gas power plant
Source: Stellar Energy
Application: Mining (gold mine)
Country: Tanzania
Location: New Luika Gold Mine
Renewable Energy: PV
Type: PV-diesel-hybrid
RE-capacity: 63 kWp
Status: commissioned in 2014
Operated by: Shanta Gold
Installer / EPC: Redavia Solar
Inverters:
Hybrid-controllers:
Modules/turbines:
Comment:
Source: Redavia Solar
Application: Mining (gas / LNG)
Country: Australia
Location: Combabula, Queensland
Renewable Energy: PV
Type: PV-diesel-hybrid
RE-capacity: 134 KWp
Status: commissioning expected in 2014
Operated by: Laing O’Rourke / Australia Pacific LNG
Installer / EPC: Laing O’Rourke
Inverters:
Hybrid-controllers:
Modules/turbines:
Comment: Redeployable hybrid power plant supported by ARENA; Australia Pacific LNG project is an incorporated joint venture project between Origin, ConocoPhillips and Sinopec that includes development of existing coal seam gas fields in
the Surat and Bowen basins
Source: ARENA
Application: mining (nickel ore mine)
Country: Australia
Location: West Leinster
Renewable Energy: PV
Type: hybrid-pv-diesel-gas
RE-capacity: 300 kWp
Status: commissioned in 2013
Operated by: BHP Billiton
Installer / EPC: Solarchoice
Inverters:
Hybrid-controllers:
Modules/turbines:
Comment: Mine was closed in 2013
Source: Solarchoice
Application: Mining (copper mine)
Country: Chile
Location: Chuquicamata
Renewable Energy: PV
Type: off-grid
RE-capacity: 6.48 kWp
Status: commissioned 2014
Operated by: Codelco
Installer / EPC: IM2
Inverters: Solarmax
Modules/turbines: Yingli
Comment:
Source: pv-magazine
Application: Mining (gold mine)
Country: Suriname
Location: District Brokpond
Renewable energy: PV
Type: on grid with PPA from mine
RE-capacity: 5 MWp
Status: construction started 2014
Operated by: Rosebel Gold Mines N.V. ( IAMGOLD Corp.)
Installer / EPC: Renewable Energy Resources Corporation
Inverters:
Modules:
Comment: on-grid, electicity to be consumed by mine
Source: The Daily Harald
Application: Mining (copper mine)
Country: Chile
Location: Sierra Gorda
Renewable Energy: Solar thermal
Type: process heat
Renewable energy capacity: 27.5 MWth
Status: commissioned 2013
Operated by: Pampa Elvira Solar selling heat to Codelco
Installer / EPC: Energy Llaima SpA; Sunmark A/S
Modules/turbines: Sunmark A/S
Comment: covers more than 80% of the heat used to refine copper
Source: Solarthermal World
Application: mining open pit (gold, copper, molybdenum)
Country: Chile
Location: El Tesoro
Renewable Energy: CSP
Type: process heat
RE- capacity: 10 MW
Status: commissioned 2012
Operated by: Minera El Tesoro
Installer / EPC: Abengoa
Inverters:
Modules/turbines: 1,280 PT-1 solar thermal collector modules
Comment:
Source: Abengoa Solar
Application: mining open pit (gold, copper, molybdenum)
Country: Chile
Location: El Tesoro
Renewable Energy: CPV
Type: local grid
RE-capacity: 64 kWp
Status: commissioned 2013
Operated by: Minera El Tesoro (MET) and Soitec Solar
Installer / EPC: Soitec Solar
Inverters:
Modules/turbines: Concentrix
Comment:
Source: pv-tech
Application: mining (open-cast mine)
Country: Chile
Location: Calama, Atacama Desert
Renewable energy: PV
Type: on-grid with PPA from mine
RE-capacity: 1 MWp
Status: commsissoned in 2012
Operated by: Solarpack
Installer / EPC: Solarpack with PPA from Codelco
Inverters:
Modules:
Comment: grid-connected, financed without subsidies
Source: Solarplaza
Application: mining (copper mine)
Country: Chile
Location: Javiera, Atacama Region
Renewable Energy: PV
Type: on-grid with PPA from mine
RE-capacity: 69.5 MWp
Status: planed for 2015
Operated by: SunEdison
Installer / EPC: SunEdision
Inverters:
Modules/turbines:
Comment: SunEdison delivers electricity to Los Pelambres Mine (Antofagasta Minerals) for 20 years. TerraForm Power, an owner and operator of solar power plants, intends to purchase the project after it becomes operational in 2015
Source: Energías renovables
Application: grid-connected, but mainly for mining (iron ore)
Country: Chile
Location: Copiapo, Atacama Desert, Amanacer power Plant
Renewable energy: PV
Type: on-grid with PPA from mine
RE-capacity: 100 MWp
Status: commissioned in 2014
Operated by: SunEdison with PPA from CAP Group
Installer / EPC: SunEdison
Inverters:
Modules:
Comment: PV-plant is grid-connected with its own transmission line, covers 15% of the CAP Group's energy demand
Source: Opic
Application: mining (gold mine)
Country: Chile
Location: Andacollo
Renewable Energy: PV
Type: on-grid
RE-capacity: 1.26 MWp
Status: commissioned in 2013
Operated by: Solairedirect and Minera Dayton
Installer / EPC: Solairedirect
Inverters:
Modules/turbines: Jinko Solar
Comment: PPA at market price
Source: pv-magazine
Application: mining (iodine mine)
Country: Chile
Location: Aguas Blancas
Renewable Energy: PV
Type: on-grid
RE-capacity: 8.8 MWp
Status: commissioning expected for 2015; project delayed due to low iodine prices
Operated by: Etrion
Installer / EPC: Etrion
Inverters:
Modules/turbines:
Comment: PPA from Atacama Minerals, owned by Canada-based mining company Sirroco; mine to be sold
Source: pv-tech
Application: Mining
Country: Canada
Location: Kimberley, Sullivan Mine
Renewable Energy: PV
Type: on-grid
RE-capacity: initially 1 MWp
Status: commissioning planed for January 2015
Operated by: City of Kimberley
Installer / EPC: Conergy
Inverters:
Modules/turbines:
Comment: PVpower plant on a reclaimed mine site owned by Teck Metals – the former industrial lands of the Sullivan Mine
Source: City of Kimberley
Application: Mining
Country: USA
Location: Questa, New Mexico
Renewable Energy: CPV
Type: on-grid
RE-capacity: 1 MWp
Status: commissioned in 2011
Operated by: Chevron
Installer / EPC:
Inverters:
Modules/turbines: Soitec
Comment: solar power on former mine waste disposal areas, no consumption of PV-electricity on mine
Source: Bloomberg
Application: Mining (molybdenum mine)
Country: South Africa
Location: Mafikeng, North West Province
Renewable Energy: PV
Type:
RE-capacity: 18 MWp
Status: planned
Operated by: Harmony Gold
Installer / EPC:
Inverters:
Modules/turbines:
Comment: Plans announced in 2012, no reports of progress
Source: Bloomberg
Application: mining (diamond mine)
Country: Canada
Location: Lac de Gras, Northwest Territories
Renewable Energy: Wind
Type: off-grid, wind-diesel-hybrid
RE-capacity: 9.2 MW
Status: commissioned in 2012
Operated by: Diavik Diamond Mines Inc.
Installer / EPC: ENERCON Canada Inc.
Inverters:
Hybrid-controllers:
Modules/turbines: Enercon
Comment: 2013, diesel-reduction by 3.8 million litres and provided 8.5 % of the mine's power needs; 2014 half year: 2.5 million litres diesel reduction and 10.3 % power; Diavik Diamond Mine: joint venture between Rio Tinto and Dominion Diamond Corporation; $31 million investment fully funded by Rio Tinto and Dominion Diamond; payback estimated at 8 years
Source: Wind Power Monthly and Canwea
Application: mining (gold mine)
Country: Argentina
Location: Veladero, San Juan
Renewable Energy: Wind
Type: off-grid, wind-diesel-hybrid
RE-capacity: 2 MW
Status: commissioned in 2008
Operated by: Minera Argentina Gold SA (MAGSA) of Barrick Gold Corp
Installer / EPC: Seawind (RAME Energy)
Inverters:
Hybrid-controllers:
Modules/turbines: DeWind
Comment:
Source: BNAmericas
Application: mining (zincgold mine)
Country: Chile
Location: El Toqui
Renewable Energy: Wind
Type: wind-hydro-diesel-hybrid
RE-capacity: 1.5 MW
Status: commissioned in 2011
Operated by: Seawind (RAME Energy) with PPA by Nyrstar
Installer / EPC: Vergnet
Inverters:
Hybrid-controllers:
Modules/turbines: Vergnet
Comment:
Source: ABB
Application: mining (nickel mine)
Country: Canada
Location: Katinniq, Ungava Peninsula, Nunavik
Renewable Energy: Wind
Type: off-grid, wind-diesel-hybrid
RE-capacity: 3 MW
Status: wind power plant commissioned in 2014, storage planed for 2015
Operated by: Glencore Raglan
Installer / EPC: Tugliq Énergie / Enercon
Inverters:
Hybrid-controllers:
Modules/turbines: Enercon
Comment: wind turbine will replace about 5% of the mine’s diesel consumption. If the wind pilot goes well, Raglan will consider installing additional wind turbines that could generate a total of 9MW to 12MW of energy
Source: Engerati
Application: mining (copper mine)
Country: Chile
Location: El Arrayán, Región Metropolitana
Renewable Energy: Wind
Type: on-grid
RE-capacity: 115 MW
Status: commissioned in 2014
Operated by: Pattern Energy and Antofagasta Minerals
Installer / EPC: Pattern Energy / AEI Services LLC / Skanska Chile SA
Inverters:
Hybrid-controllers:
Modules/turbines: Siemens
Comment: 70% of the electricity for Los Pelambres copper mine, El Arrayan will provide Los Pelambres with 20% of its energy needs
Source: Power Technology
Application: mining (iron ore mine)
Country: Mauritania
Location: Nouadhibou
Renewable Energy: Wind
Type: on-grid
RE-capacity: 4.4 MW
Status: commissioned 2012
Operated by: SNIM
Installer / EPC: Valorem, Vergnet
Inverters:
Modules/turbines: Vergnet
Comment: mainly for SNIM's iron ore mines
Source: France Diplomatie
Application: mining (copper and gold mine)
Country: Mongolia
Location: Oyu Tolgoi
Renewable Energy: Wind
Type: on-grid
RE-capacity: 102 MW
Status: targeted for Q1/2015
Operated by:
Installer / EPC: Qleantech
Inverters:
Modules/turbines:
Comment: investment backed by Happy Wind, a Swedish investment company; mine operated by Rio Tinto
Source: Nikkei Asian Review