One of Australia’s leading gold producers has unveiled plans for a massive wind, solar and battery hybrid project – the biggest of its type in Australia – to help power its expanded mining operations around the country’s gold capital of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

Northern Star Resources says its Kalgoorlie Regional Renewable Energy Project will combine 256 megawatts (MW) of wind capacity, 110 MW (ac) of solar capacity, and 140 MW and 300 MWh of battery storage.

It will be the biggest wind, solar and hybrid installation of its type in Australia, and will be rivalled – and eventually exceeded – only by the massive wind, solar and battery plans of the country’s biggest iron ore miners in the Pilbara to the north.