By MICHELLE SLATER
A Melbourne-based company is eyeing off the Latrobe Valley to manufacture and install floating solar panels on the region’s open cut coal mines.
FloatPac Solar is in talks with the region’s major energy companies to install the technology at the Valley’s three mine sites and the Hazelwood cooling pondage.
It also includes discussions with Loy Yang A operator AGL as the company plans to eventually transform the coal-fired power station into a low-carbon
industrial energy hub.
FloatPac Solar chief executive officer Gavin Hodgins outlined the plans at a webinar on Monday night at a magazine launch led by Communities Leading Change talking about transition beyond coal.