Share this article Share this article LONDON, Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Aggreko, the world's leading provider of mobile and modular power solutions, has signed a contract with global mining operator Gold Fields to provide a 25.9 MW hybrid system to the Salares Norte open pit gold mine in Chile. This ground-breaking thermal-PV-solution provides power for the entire mine, which sits at an altitude of 4,500m in the Andes mountain range and is 190km from the nearest town. Once complete, it will achieve $7.4m in cost of energy savings over the next decade and a further $1.1m in carbon tax offset over the Aggreko project lifetime in addition to 104,000 tonnes of carbon emissions savings.