As part of Fortescue’s “real zero target” emissions plan in Western Australia, the company has awarded three key decarbonisation-related contracts to a Belmont-based company.
Power and communications solutions provider Genus has nabbed contracts valued at approximately $60 million, including the construction of 220kV transmission lines and 30 kilometres of overhead power distribution infrastructure at Fortescue’s Christmas Creek mine site, which is the company’s green energy hub in the Chichester Ranges.
Additionally, the agreement will also see Genus work on the fast charger and pit power facilities at Eliwana, the iron ore mining site operating in Nanutarra, and Flying Fish, located in the Pilbara region.
“Genus is very pleased to have been awarded these additional contracts by Fortescue as Genus continues to support Fortescue with its decarbonisation initiatives in Western Australia,” Genus managing director David Riches said.
“Genus is committed to strengthening its longstanding and successful partnership with Fortescue as Fortescue advances toward its decarbonisation goals.”
In Fortescue’s Climate Transition Plan, executive chairman Andrew Forrest said that the company was committed to forging “practical alliances that prove heavy industry can follow a new path”.
The Climate Transition Plan laid out Fortescue’s bold “real zero target”, which aims to eliminate scope 1 and scope 2 emissions from Fortescue’s Australian terrestrial iron ore operations by 2030.
The three Genius projects will require a peak workforce of approximately 80 people on-site. Work will begin in October 2025 and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2026.
