Alinta energy solar river project

What is Alinta Energy's Solar River Project?

On 16 July 2019, Alinta Energy signed an agreement with the Solar River project, which is one of the world’s largest solar power developments, located in South Australia’s solar rich mid north region, halfway between the townships of Burra and Morgan.

Will Alinta Energy build a solar farm in Western Australia?

Power utility Alinta Energy expects work on a 45 MW solar farm and 35 MW battery energy storage system planned for Western Australia’s Pilbara region to commence before the end of the year following the signing of a large-scale renewable power purchase agreement with international mining giant BHP.

Who owns Alinta solar?

The now Hong Kong owned Alinta signed up for a 15-year contract last July to take three quarters of the output from Solar River – which is proposed to combine a 200MW solar farm with a 100MW/300MWh batteries, one of the biggest not the world.

How does Alinta Energy classify renewables projects?

Alinta Energy classifies renewables projects into categories as defined below in relation to tracking to achievement of our targets of supporting 1,000MW and 1,500MW of renewable energy projects by 2020 and 2025 respectively. Contributes to Alinta Energy’s renewables target?

Will Alinta Energy support new renewable generation?

The Merchant Energy team pursued opportunities to support new renewable capacity, which resulted in Alinta Energy achieving our target of supporting the development of 1,000MW of renewable generation by 2020 in October 2019 (shortly after the end of the reporting period).

How many MW will Alinta Energy achieve in 2023?

As of 30 June 2023, we achieved 999MW towards our target to support the development of 1,500MW of renewable generation and energy storage capacity by FY25. Alinta Energy's renewable projects contributing to this performance are: