The Pilbara region of Western Australia is almost unique in the world as it is extremely rich in a range of renewable energy types including geothermal, solar and wind as shown in whilst also containing very large mining, petroleum and industrial projects. Many of these projects are very large emitters of carbon and will need to use renewable energy to offset future high costs of these emissions.

With very strong growth forecast on the major electricity network in the region (NWIS), during the next five to seven years, a large proportion of this excess load could be accommodated by renewable energy. As the NWIS is a base-load network (unlike most other major grids in Australia), geothermal is ideally suited to underpin the delivery of renewable energy to the major projects in the region.
New World has a vision for the Pilbara region as a world-class centre for renewable energy, underpinned by geothermal energy, which delivers hundreds of megawatts of emissions-free electricity to major resource and industrial projects. To fulfill this vision, the Company aims to link geothermal resources to the NWIS and support the installation of transmission infrastructure to enable the connection of other forms of renewable energy.
In addition to large-scale energy requirements, off-grid remote communities and towns could benefit greatly from small- to moderate-scale geothermal installations that replace diesel generators, in whole or in part. The Carnarvon Artesian Basin is an extensive aquifer system akin to the Great Artesian Basin and contains warm water that may support geothermal plants with outputs of tens of kilowatts, similar to that at Birdsville in southwest Queensland. New World plans to investigate and drive the development and operation of small (<1 MW) geothermal power stations to assist these communities.

New World Energy has undertaken a detailed analysis and was successful the successful tenderer for nine Geothermal Exploration Permits over areas with the best geothermal potential in the Pilbara region. Consequently, New World Energy now has the dominant position in the region.