Rio Tinto to build largest solar power plant in Canada's North — via financialpost
Comprising 6,600 solar panels, the plant will generate about 4,200 megawatt-hours of carbon-free electricity annually to power the Diavik mine, Rio said in a statement on Aug. 10, and will cut diesel consumption at the site by one million litres per year, which the miner says is comparable to eliminating the emissions of 630 cars.
The facility will be equipped with bifacial panels that will generate energy from both direct sunlight and light that reflects off the snow covering Diavik for most of the year, the miner said. “There is a huge number of options that we can work with,” Bigg said. “Whether there are opportunities for some or all of to be redeployed to other communities or commercial operations in the North … once we have got one or two years of operations under our belts, we can say with confidence what the potential upside would be.”Article content
The Northwest Territories government will be supporting the project with $3.3 million in funding, while the federal government will provide $600,000.
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