Rio Tinto Kennecott has announced plans to construct a 25-megawatt solar power plant expansion, bringing the mine’s total solar generating capacity to 30 megawatts as part of ongoing efforts to improve the sustainability of its operations and reduce CO2 emissions. The power plant will help power Kennecott’s copper extraction and smelting operations in Salt Lake County.
The solar plant expansion will be located next to Kennecott’s existing solar plant, which was completed in 2023 as part of a pilot project to expand the company’s renewable energy supply. Together, the two solar plants will reduce Kennecott’s Scope 2 emissions by approximately 6 percent or 21,000 tons of Please log in to see the rest of this story.
