The historic gold rush town of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia’s mineral-rich Goldfields region is set to become the site of the country’s biggest photovoltaic power plant.
Investec, an international banking and asset management group, has proposed the construction of a 50-megawatt solar PV plant at a site close to Kalgoorlie, nearly 600 kilometres to the north of Perth at the terminus of the Great Eastern Highway.
Investec hopes to obtain land tenure for the Mungari Industrial Estate, located 26 kilometres southwest of Kalgoorlie, within the next few months before seeking power purchase agreements and obtaining project financing. The banking conglomerate expects construction to commence as early as next year.
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