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Rapidly deployable home-grown solar energy tech is to feature in a hybrid power station for a major lithium mining project in Western Australia.<\/p>\n
Liontown\u2019s Kathleen Valley Lithium Project<\/a> in WA’s North-eastern Goldfields will crank out spodumene concentrate. This is used in the production of lithium hydroxide utilised in cathodes for lithium-ion batteries<\/a> for various applications including electric cars<\/a> and home energy storage<\/a>.<\/p>\n While commercial production is yet to commence at Kathleen Valley, buyers including Tesla<\/a>\u00a0 and Ford<\/a> already have dibs on a big chunk of Kathleen Valley’s output.<\/p>\n The venture will be an energy-intensive exercise and renewables are to play a significant role in keep electricity costs and emissions down. In September last year, Liontown executed a Letter of Award with Zenith Energy for electricity supply. Zenith is constructing an off-grid hybrid power station<\/a> on a build, own, operate basis to supply Kathleen Valley’s operations, which will consist of:<\/p>\n Australia’s 5B announced yesterday it had been appointed as the solar technology provider for the 16MW solar farm. 5B will supply its Maverick system, which is a modular, pre-fabricated and pre-configured solar panel and racking solution including concrete ballast shipped in blocks each containing up to 90 x 540-550W solar panels that are then unfolded on-site.<\/p>\n\n