News Articles for Contract Power Australia

NRW Holdings has secured the crushing plant contract for Fortescue Metals Group's Cloudbreak operation while Pacific Energy is building a battery storage system for the Pilbara miner.

Strandline Resources has confirmed a 10-year LNG supply agreement to power its $260 million Coburn mineral sands development in WA.

Alltype Engineering, a subsidiary of mining services company WestStar, has secured $10 million of contracts and extensions across the energy, mining and infrastructure sectors.

Pacific Energy subsidiary Contract Power Australia has secured the works to build a new power station at Fortescue Metals Group's Solomon iron ore mine in the Pilbara.

Gnangara-based Pacific Energy will acquire Kewdale's Hybrid Systems Australia as the company positions itself to support an accelerating roll out of new electricity generation technology, such as standalone power systems.

Contract Power Group plans to build a new power station at Esperance after Horizon Power awarded the Perth company a 20-year power purchase agreement for the supply of electricity to the town.

Pacific Energy says it will meet its underlying earnings guidance for the 2018 financial year, but has flagged impairments totalling $14.8 million.

SPECIAL REPORT: The rollout of next generation energy infrastructure such as batteries and microgrids is kicking off in WA, adding to the opportunities available for contractors in this space.

Horizon Power has awarded contracts to CPS National and Contract Power Group for the construction of a solar farm and battery storage in Onslow.

Perth-based Pacific Energy, through its newly acquired Contract Power Group, has secured a contract with Mineral Resources to build a 52-megawatt power station at the Wodgina lithium project.

SPECIAL REPORT: Ten years after completing a company-defining acquisition, remote power operator Pacific Energy has struck another similar deal.

Pacific Energy has strengthened its position in the remote power market by striking a deal to acquired Kewdale-based Contract Power Group for $90 million in cash and shares, adding to its existing operations through subsidiary Kalgoorlie Power Systems.

More mining projects on the horizon and a move towards outsourcing generation is creating work for power contractors.

Contract Power Group has won a contract to build, own and operate a power station at Pilbara Minerals' Pilgangoora lithium project for at least seven years, while former Fortescue Metals Group delivery manager Dale Henderson has taken over as Pilbara's project director.

Blackham Resources has awarded four contracts for its Matilda gold project, including a $115 million open-pit mining services contract given to MACA.

In some of the state's more remote towns, where electricity can be 700 per cent more expensive to deliver than in Perth, embracing cheaper new technology is only part of the solution to driving down costs.

How is it possible to remove an incumbent contractor (yet retain a good relationship) and save millions by negotiating with another organisation that agrees to take on greater risk?

Six new power stations will be built in the Mid West by private company Contract Power Australia for Horizon Power customers.