It’s hot at Cloncurry in Outback Queensland. In fact, Cloncurry boasts the hottest Australian day in recorded memory and it’s the perfect site for a proposed solar thermal power station. It seems like the perfect plan for a town that once recorded a temperature of 53 degrees Celsius in the shade way back in 1889.
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Plans are in place to start construction on a new solar power plant that connections claim will be capable of supplying base-load electricity 24 hours a day. The power station will be located in Whyalla, South Australia where on average the sun shines 301 days of the year.
Renewable energy company Wizard Power will begin construction of the [...]
The development of four wind farms by Australian company Pacific Hydro will make up the Portland Wind Project. The wind farms will be located at Cape Bridgewater, Cape Nelson, Cape Sir William Grant and Yambuk in southwest Victoria.
The 195MW project represents the largest wind farm development in the Southern Hemisphere generating 670 GWh per annum. [...]
A new wind farm is being planned for construction at Crowlands in north-western Victoria, Australia. The wind farm will be located on 18 local properties and will bring around $150 million into the local economy through construction, operation and maintenance.
Pacific Hydro has applied to the Victorian Minister for Planning seeking planning approval for the Crowlands Wind Farm. [...]
Construction has finally begun on a wind farm in South Australia that will power a 57 MW powe plant and generate enough electricity to power 30,000 homes. The project is at Clements Gap in South Australia’s mid-north and will cost $135 million.
Clements Gap is in the Barunga Range in South Australia about 20 minutes south [...]
A new 192 MW wind power project known as the Waubra Wind Farm Project, which is located approximately 35km north-west of Ballarat in Victoria, is currently under construction by Acciona Energy. The Waubra Wind Farm consists of 128 wind turbines spread over a 16.5 x 10.5km site and will generate enough electricity to meet the [...]
