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Accelerating the energy transition
Lighthouse is Australia's leading energy infrastructure services partner.
We coordinate and scale specialty energy infrastructure capability, to meet demand, unlock critical industry bottlenecks, and deliver superior commercial outcomes for the energy transition.
What we deliver
- Wind Resource Data
- Network Connection Infrastructure
- Grid Connection Advice
- Substations for Wind, Solar & Storage
- Transportable Switchrooms
- Civil Works, Foundations, Trenching
- Remote Energy Solutions
- Transmission Towers & Monopoles
- Telecom Towers and Masts
- Powerline Stringing
How we deliver
- Strategic Planning & Feasibility
- Engineering & Design
- Sovereign Manufacturing
- Construction & Commissioning
- Operation & Maintenance
Delivered by our companies
Our Capability
Specialist services across the energy infrastructure value chain.
Lighthouse helps renewable energy developers reach financial investment decision by providing:
- Strategic grid connection advisory services
- Wind and solar resource measurement services for evaluation campaigns
Lighthouse also provides services to support the construction of wind, solar and battery assets:
- Early works services (site clearing and access)
- Foundation and civil construction works
- Permanent Met mast manufacture, install and maintenance
Lighthouse helps renewable energy developers to plan and deliver smarter connection infrastructure.
- End-to-end connection agreement services
- Design, construction & commissioning of electrical and civil balance of plant
- Earthworks, foundations and trenching
- Substation construction
- Pre-fabricated transportable switchrooms
- Transmission tower and monopole construction
- HV powerline stringing services
- Testing & commissioning
- Earthworks, foundations and trenching
Lighthouse supports transmission network service providers and their partners deliver critical network projects by providing skilled resources and solutions for:
- Site clearing & earthworks
- Foundations
- Tower & pole assembly and erection
- Conductor stringing
- Install hardware / running blocks
- Perform run out of draw wire and pull conductors
- Installation of earth wire and optical ground wire
- Termination of conductors / earth wire and clamping in
- Substation construction
- Testing & commissioning
- Maintenance
Electrification is critical for large manufacturing, industrial and resources clients to decarbonise. This results in larger grid connections. Lighthouse supports the decarbonisation of large industrial and digital loads by streamlining this complex process:
- Strategic grid connection advisory services
- Engineering, design and construction capability for brown and greenfield grid connections
Lighthouse provides a range of solutions to assist off grid clients design, deliver, operate and maintain infrastructure to support their rapidly changing energy needs.
- Wind monitoring for remote resources clients
- Civil and electrical turnkey balance of plant services for off grid power infrastructure
- Remote area microgrid management and operation
- Rapid deploy power and communication units
Lighthouse Industries has the experience, technology, knowledge and resources to deliver the critical infrastructure services that renewable energy developers, energy utilities, and decarbonisation clients rely on.
Our experience and resources are unmatched
>6
Industry leading companies and counting
>360
Years of combined delivery expertise
>90
Years of continued operation
1
Mission: To Accelerate the Energy Transition
>3000
Projects delivered across Australia
>5000
km's of powerlines constructed
>100
HV substations constructed
>1300
Met Masts installed
>1070
Total Workforce
>740
Construction and Manufacturing Workers
>135
HV Line workers
>125
Engineers, Designers & Project Managers
>20
Offices, depots and facilities across Australia and New Zealand
>43000m2
of manufacturing facilities
>125
Excavators, Trenchers, Light and Heavy Plant
>183
Construction and heavy haulage vehicles
Our Clients
Our Companies
Each of our businesses support our mission to accelerate Australia’s transition to renewable energy.
Our portfolio of companies provide our clients national scale, integrated capabilities and execution certainty.
Delivering smarter energy infrastructure
RJE Global leads the way in innovation within the renewable energy and power infrastructure sector, providing smarter, client-focused engineering and construction solutions for complex projects.
The power to construct reliable infrastructure
With extensive scale and specialised expertise, Catalpa delivers essential construction services and resources for transmission and renewable energy infrastructure right across Australia.
Taking power beyond the horizon
Cowell Electric delivers remote and regional electricity infrastructure, leveraging its 96 years of operational history to ensure success in Australia’s most challenging environments.
Managing the lifecycle of network risk
Leveraging over 70 successful grid connection projects over more than 20 years, Clutch provides strategic services to support the connection of large scale grid connected assets, through pipeline assessment, defining robust connection strategies, managing the connection process and developing compliance practises for connected assets.
Delivering bankable
wind resource data
ART designs, manufactures, installs, and maintains turnkey infrastructure solutions for wind resource assessments, as well as for the broader renewables, resources and communications industries.
Expert wind energy resource data monitoring
A leading provider of meteorological masts, LiDAR systems, and digital asset monitoring solutions, Energy3 specialises in securing wind resource data across New Zealand and Australia.
Project Spotlight
Collie BESS
- Catalpa was engaged to initially deliver the early works program including replacement of an existing bridge and access track to the site, with the scope extended to include completion of the laydowns and access roads.
- Catalpa was then awarded the main BESS Package, which will include bulk earthworks, concrete works, piling and drainage.
Project Energy Connect
- Catalpa committed an extensive crew of line workers to Stage 1 of the project
- This saw 203 Guyed Mast towers and 88 Suspension & Tension towers assembled & erected
Silverton Windfarm
33KV Overhead Line Construction
- Installation of 51 slip jointed tubular steel structures.
- Installation of all cross arms and support structures, line hardware fittings and clamps etc.
- Pre-stringing testing of all OPGW conductor Drums and OPGW Termination
- Stringing of 9.6km of single circuit overhead power line
- Stringing 7.7km of dual circuit overhead power line
Lincoln Gap Wind Farm
Construction of the 6.8km 275kV overhead power line between the Lincoln Gap Windfarm substation and the ElectraNet 275kV Corraberra Hills switching substation.
- 6.8km of single circuit 275kV and OPGW powerline
- 27m-30m steel slip jointed tubular poles
- Installation of landing spans between the line terminal structure adjacent to both substations and the substation gantries
AGL CHARO HV MICRO-GRID
Design, engineer and construct 5.6km overhead High Voltage 11kv distribution powerline, to support a future centralised power generation solution at the Charo Oil Field in the Cooper Basin
- 5.6km overhead HV Transmission powerline and switchgear
- 1 x 200 kVA pole mount transformer
- 1 x 100 kVA pole mount transformer
- 8 x 63 kVA pole mount transformers
Carapateena 11kV Powerline
Design and construct of approximately 7.5km of 11kV overhead powerline
- 40 x 17m galvanised steel monopoles,
- 33klm of 54/7/3.0 ACSR/GZ - Mango conductors 11klm
of 72 core SMOF (Single Mode Optic Fibre) - Optical ground wire (OPGW)
- OPGW Coyotes installed at the plant and village
- Termination poles and mid-wat along the line
Bulgana Green Power Hub
Design and Construct services for electrical balance of plant for the Bulgana Green Power Hub. The project consisted of 56 wind turbine generators with an installed capacity of 194MW and the connection of a 22 MVA Tesla BESS.
- Design, procurement, construction & management of a 30x6m Glass Reinforced Concrete (GRC) switchroom containing 33kV switchgear, electrical protection relays, SCADA automation & control equipment, on-load tap changer equipment & metering devices
- 33kV underground cable reticulation network connecting 56x wind turbines to 33kV switchboard, 33kV underground cables & kiosk transformers (33/0.44kV) & associated switchgear to connect Tesla BESS modules & installation of Tesla BESS battery modules & inverters
- Civil foundation design and construction
- Harmonic filter solution
Mount Mercer Wind farm
A large scale windfarm electrical design package undertaken with full electrical protection design of the windfarm including engineering of all electrical components associated with collector group & switchroom. Construction & commissioning of HV protection panels.
- MV and collector group reticulation
- HV protection and integration
- Construction and commissioning of switch room and control room
- Secondary and primary commissioning of all equipment
Dulacca Windfarm
Electrical Balance of Plant to connect 43 x 4.2MW Wind Turbine Generators, 33/132kV Substation including 33kV Switchroom, seperate 132kV Reactive Yard & O&M Building & Facility
Waubra Windfarm
Design, Construction & Commissioning of windfarm electrical balance of plant including five fully equipped outdoor substations.
- Designed and installed 70kms of trench
- Laid 105kms of 11kV bare earth conductor.
- Installed 105kms of 12C single and multi-mode fibre cabling into the trenches.
- Self-performed all 11kV cable and fibre optic cable terminations and joints using company-owned specialised equipment and tools.
Kaban Green Power Hub
The connection of 28 Wind Turbine Generators, 33kV electrical reticulation, Operations and Maintenance facility, communications network and high voltage wind farm substation.
- 33kV Switchroom and control
- MV/HV substation including all plant and equipment
- O&M building
- Facility protection & control system
- 30km of trenching collector reticulation system
News
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Posted 1 Aug
Lighthouse Industries Welcomes Five New Companies to its Energy Infrastructure Services Portfolio
Lighthouse Industries is pleased to welcome RJE Global, Catalpa, Cowell, Clutch & Energy3
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Posted 1 July
ART - Australia's Leading Wind Measurement Partner Launches Industry First Turnkey Wind Resource As A Service Offering
Lighthouse Industries is pleased to announce the relaunch of its portfolio company ART, with a new look and an industry-first comprehensive Wind Resource As A Service (WRaaS) product.
Read more of ART - Australia's Leading Wind Measurement Partner Launches Industry First Turnkey Wind Resource As A Service Offering