Insight - Billionaire miner sees next fortune in rush for clean energy


Forrest: Australia is a global leader in having everything the green future needs. — AFP

IT took Andrew Forrest a little over a decade to build an iron ore empire to challenge the global majors. Now he’s set himself an equally ambitious timeline to create a global powerhouse in clean energy.

The Perth-based billionaire, widely known as “Twiggy” in Australia, has been scouring the planet’s far-flung regions including Kyrgyzstan and the Democratic Republic of Congo for investment opportunities in renewable power and hydrogen production.

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