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Northern Star Resources Limited Carosue Dam gold mining operation Modular, scalable, re-deployable solar PV Announcement Dates: October 8, 2021 and March 3, 2022
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old miner Northern Star Resources Limited is pursuing a pathway and reductions in GHG emissions from its baseline (FY20) of 931kt CO2-e down to approximately 590kt CO2-e. It is installing re-locatable solar arrays at its Carosue Dam Operations in partnership with independent power provider Nomadic Energy. In October 2021, the company more than tripled the capacity of the solar farm at Carosue Dam by adding a 3.3 MW re-deployable array to the existing 1 MW system which was commissioned in January 2020. Nomadic installed prefabricated, pre-wired Maverick solar modules designed by Sydney-based manufacturer 5B for the expansion solar array. In March 2022, Nomadic Energy took less than 21 days to complete a 2 MW install to further boost the solar capacity at Carosue Dam. The Maverick panels can be deployed up to 10 times faster and can generate up to twice the energy as conventional single axis tracker installations of comparable size using the same amount of land, claims 5B. The expanded 6.3 MW solar farm is expected to offset 6,686 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually.
Articles Source: PV Magazine - October 2021 and March 2022 Image Source: Nomadic Energy
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