ENERGY MICROGRIDS
The Agnew Gold Mine, in south-central Western Australia, fills the familiar descriptor “isolated WA mining site” in just about every way. The mine is roughly 1000 kilometres north-east of Perth. It employs about 400 people, three-quarters of them contractors, most fly-in/fly-out. The nearest town is Leinster, population 700-ish - a borough established in the 1970s expressly as a mining dormitory town.
Given the isolation, it's perhaps against the odds that, just over two years ago, Agnew commissioned the country's biggest hybrid renewable energy microgrid.
At the time, the Agnew Hybrid Renewable Microgrid was described
