An application has been submitted to the Environmental Protection Authority seeking to upgrade the proposed the Western Green Energy Hub (WGEH) to an eye-watering 70GW from 50GW.
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The Western Green Energy Hub is being developed by InterContinental Energy and CWP Global, along with Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO).
To be built in Western Australia’s Goldfields-Esperance region on Mirning Country, the massive project will span 2.29 million hectares of pastoral leases and crown lands, and comprise 35 solar farms and 3,000 wind turbines with the aim of producing 3.5 million tonnes of green hydrogen annually.
The project’s generation assets will be arranged into ‘nodes’, each comprising approximately 2GW of solar and wind power, with a 1.5GW hydrogen electrolyser positioned within each node.
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According to the developers, when fully scaled the project could generate more than 200TWh of renewable energy—dependent upon the mix and size of wind and solar.
