Sun Metals Solar Farm Jobs

The solar farm covers up to 120 hectares of land and will be connected into sun metals existing 33 132kv substation.

Sun metals solar farm jobs. Sun metals townsville qld as a sun metals refinery operator you will safely and efficiently operate clean and maintain area plant and equipment to ensure a balanced operation so. Sun metals says it needs 900 000 megawatt hours of electricity to produce 225 000 tonnes of zinc each year and the solar farm should be able to provide 30 per cent of that need. 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. 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.

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. Industry is getting right behind the solar industry combining the two to help with their power generation palaszczuk said at the opening. 22 days ago save job saved to my jobs remove more. 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.

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. 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. Around 350 jobs are expected to be filled during construction.