Anglo American Platinum has chosen EDF Renewables South Africa and Pele Green Energy to build a 100 MWp solar photovoltaic system at its Mogalakwena platinum mine in South Africa. The initiative is part of the mining company’s long-term sustainability plan in South Africa. The partnership plans to start building the solar facility in the fourth quarter of 2022, with completion due in late 2023.
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Fusion Fuel Green PLC, a green hydrogen technology company, has signed an MoU with Magnesitas De Rubian, S.A. (Magnesitas), a Spanish mining company, to jointly explore the feasibility of combining green hydrogen and carbon capture technology to reduce the carbon intensity of mining operations and processing. The longer-term ambition of the partnership is to accelerate the timeline to climate neutrality of mining activity and develop new mining solutions based on zero-emissions hydrogen.
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BHP is exploring options to exit thermal coal by divestment. Its thermal coal assets have seen a serious erosion of viability and are on track to deliver an operating loss in 2019-20. The growing momentum to acknowledge the 2015 Paris Agreement, coupled with ongoing double digit annual solar cost deflation presents a challenge to the thermal power sector.
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There is an increasingly strong case for the use of renewable energy in mining operations, particularly in hybrid systems that operate in combination with grid power or diesel generators.
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