About this event
Tent Mountain Renewable Energy Complex
Transforming a Legacy Coal Mine into a Sustainable Energy Production and Storage Facility
In this Sustainability Delivery Group Expert Talk, Ben Saffron, Executive Advisor at GHD will share first-hand insights on GHD's award-winning Tent Mountain Renewable Energy Complex Project, which won 'Energy Project of the Year' at the 2025 Sustainability Delivery Awards.
Discover how GHD used innovative solutions to address energy technical, commercial and regulatory challenges to achieve success.
The Tent Mountain Renewable Energy Complex development is a novel, real world approach to re-imagining and then physically re-purposing an idle coal mine. It takes advantage of natural topography and previously disturbed areas, market and political support for both clean hydrogen fuel and a grid stabilizing energy storage system. The development is one that achieves many objectives across Indigenous, social, political, environmental, and energy transition elements.
Importantly, it is a both financially viable and technically feasible decarbonization. It is a compelling transformation that is an example of what is possible when multiple, diverse skills and thinking are brought together to solve a complex challenge of transforming a legacy mine.
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Team member
Indre JakaityteT
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Guest speaker
Ben Saffron Executive Advisor @ GHDG
Ben is an Executive Advisor for GHD, a leader within GHD’s Advisory practice, and the Investment, Policy and Economics Service Line Leader for the Americas. Ben has over 20 years of global consulting experience and deep expertise working at the intersection of business and technical-based issues. With degrees in engineering and finance, and a background in major infrastructure and energy capital projects, he has worked extensively supporting project development and investments for energy sector, energy transition, and alternative asset use opportunities.
