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Mining city Broken Hill to host one of world’s biggest renewable micro-grids – RenewEconomy
Mining city of Broken Hill likely to be powered by one of the biggest renewable energy micro-grids in the world, and its good news too for the state’s biggest solar farms.
The iconic mining city of Broken Hill in the far west of New South Wales is set to host 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 res…
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