By Giles Parkinson | Renew Economy | November 28, 2025
Western Australia gold miner Bellevue has claimed a new record for renewables production at an off-grid facility, saying it had achieved 101 consecutive hours of 100 per cent renewables and with its fossil fuel engines off.
The new achievement, reached earlier this month, beats the previous record of 84 hours reported on this web site in September, and is believed to be a record for any off-grid facility of this size.
Bellevue Gold has installed one of the world’s biggest off-grid arrays, with 24 megawatts (MW) of wind, 27 megawatts of solar and a 15 MW, 30 MWh battery, supported by 9 MW of diesel capacity and 15 MW of gas capacity. It has an average load of 12 MW from its mining and processing facilities.
The wind turbines only started production in May, but the company has already achieved months of more than 90 per cent average renewables penetration.
