Sun metals is a subsidiary of korea zinc they ve already spent around 1b on the townsville zinc refinery and according to the courier mail the 116mw the sun metals solar farm provides will account for around 1 3 of their energy needs so there s plenty of room to expand.
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About 30 per cent of the site s electricity needs will be provided by a 200 million solar farm opened by sun metals in august.
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The opening of the 125 mw solar farm at the sun metals zinc refinery which is expected to cover one third of the company energy needs was attended by queensland premier annastacia palaszczuk.
The sun metals solar farm has however been impacted by system strength issues that have plagued a number of queensland wind and solar farms requiring the projects to dial down their output to.
Around 350 jobs are expected to be filled during construction.
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The solar farm covers up to 120 hectares of land and will be connected into sun metals existing 33 132kv substation.
The sun metals solar farm is a landmark case with the korean owned company as the first major energy user to source some of its electricity needs from.
Sun metals built the solar farm in 2018 to supply its power intensive zinc refinery near townsville making it the largest industrial solar project in australia.
However the project that covers one third of the refinery s energy needs is today plagued by system strength issues that were recently identified in north queensland.
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