Mining city Broken Hill to become one of world’s biggest renewable micro-gridsThe iconic mining city of Broken Hill in the far west of New South Wales is set to become one of the world’s largest renewable mini-grids, powered almost entirely by solar, wind and grid scale storage.
The proposal comes from the transmission company Transgrid, which says it is seizing on the opportunity to replace the city’s ageing back-up diesel generators with “21st century technology”.
The main thrust of this will be investment in storage facilities to support the existing wind and solar resources in the region – principally the 200MW Silverton wind farm (pictured above) and the 52MW Broken Hill solar farm, both owned by the renewables investment fund PARF, part owned by AGL.
