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Renewable Resources at Mines Tracker

RMI’s Renewable Resources at Mines tracker (R2M) provides sourced data on renewable energy projects sited at mines, either active or legacy, as well as projects owned by mining companies.

* All data collected is publicly available and includes both commissioned and announced projects.

Are we missing a project? Please contact Charles Cannon (ccannon@rmi.org) with details.

Summary Stats

Number of Sites: 88

Countries: 26

Companies: 65

Total Capacity (MW): 5032

Total Installed (MW): 1760.4

Total Announced (MW): 3156.6

Average System Size (MW): 58.5

Median System Size (MW): 11.6

Wind Sites: 15

Solar Sites: 66

Hybrid Sites: 6

Commissioned Sites: 52

Sites with Storage: 13

VPPAs, & Green Power Purchase programs are excluded. Off-site projects where a mining company has a direct ownership stake are included. Whether the renewable attribute (REC) generated is retired or sold has not been investigated.

Database last updated on November 1, 2019.

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