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Operational Site

Eliwana

Eliwana's advanced low-profile plant is proving mining operations can run with less diesel and lower costs.

Operational Site Data

  • Location

    Australia

  • Product

    Hematite

  • Capacity

    Battery

  • Status

    Operational

Efficiency that changes the equation.

Eliwana was designed differently from day one.

Commissioned in 2020, its advanced low-profile plant can direct load up to 5,200 tonnes of ore per hour. Faster movement. Lower energy use. Long-term operational efficiency built into the system from the start.

Located in Nanutarra in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, on Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Country, Eliwana is now helping lead the next shift in heavy industry.

Built for performance. Built for what comes next.

Where fossil fuels get replaced

Eliwana is one of the first sites in our network being designed around renewable energy systems at scale.

Battery storage and transmission infrastructure are reshaping how heavy industry gets powered.

This isn’t theory. It’s energy infrastructure built to keep real operations moving.

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    Energy stored. Power on demand.

    A 120MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) captures renewable energy generated during the day and delivers power back into operations when it’s needed most. Daylight in. Diesel out.

  • Power connected.

    More than 140 kilometres of 220kV transmission lines connect Eliwana and Flying Fish to our Green Grid, helping move renewable energy directly across operations. Built to deliver reliable power. Built to scale what works.

See Eliwana in action

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Help build what comes next

We’re cutting fossil fuels out of iron ore operations. Scaling renewable energy infrastructure. Deploying the systems needed to decarbonise heavy industry.

And Eliwana is helping lead that shift.

If you want to work where new energy systems are being built at scale, this is the place.

Join us.

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