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World's largest solar thermal plant
January 14 , 2018
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- The South Australian government has given development approval for The world's largest solar-thermal power plant.
- Construction on the 150-megawatt Aurora plant, to be built by utility-scale solar power company Solar Reserve, will begin in 2018 at an estimated cost of $509 million
- The new development will be located near Port Augusta, the site of the last coal power station in South Australia.
- It will make use of solar thermal technology, and a molten salt tower to capture and store the sun’s energy.
- The new plant will be able to power around 35 per cent of all of the households in South Australia.
- It will join the largest lithium-ion battery, built by Tesla to complement the state's power grid during the high-demand summer, as another major renewable energy project in South Australia.
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