{"id":131890,"date":"2021-12-06T21:23:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T05:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/alinta-proposes-1000mw-offshore-wind-farm-to-help-power-portland-smelter"},"modified":"2021-12-06T21:23:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T05:23:43","slug":"alinta-proposes-1000mw-offshore-wind-farm-to-help-power-portland-smelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/alinta-proposes-1000mw-offshore-wind-farm-to-help-power-portland-smelter","title":{"rendered":"Alinta proposes 1,000MW offshore wind farm to help power Portland smelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alinta-proposes-1000mw-offshore-wind-farm-to-help-power-portland-smelter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alinta unveils plans to build 1,000MW offshore wind farm near Portland to help deliver 100 per cent renewable energy supply to local aluminium smelter.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Alinta Energy is proposing a 1,000MW wind farm off the coast of Portland in Victoria that could help power the Portland aluminium smelter with up to 100 per cent renewables, and inject green energy into the country\u2019s main grid.<\/p>\n<p>The $4 billion Spinifex offshore wind project, <a href=\"https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/alinta-plans-massive-1gw-offshore-wind-project-and-the-first-wind-farm-in-pilbara\/\">first flagged by Alinta CEO Jeff Dimery<\/a> in an interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/energy-insiders-podcast-alintas-big-pilbara-and-offshore-wind-plays\/\">RenewEconomy\u2019s weekly Energy Insiders podcast<\/a> in October, would be sited about 10km off the coast of Portland.<\/p>\n<p>Spinifex would connect to the grid via the smelter\u2019s switchyard \u2013 which accounts for more than 10 per cent of the state\u2019s electricity demand \u2013 and make the site among Australia\u2019s first smelters to be powered by up to 100 per cent renewables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alinta unveils plans to build 1,000MW offshore wind farm near Portland to help deliver 100 per cent renewable energy supply to local aluminium smelter. Alinta Energy is proposing a 1,000MW wind farm off the coast of Portland in Victoria that could help power the Portland aluminium smelter with up to 100 per cent renewables, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}