A WA country town is set to receive a new low-emissions technology installation, following the announcement of a solar-thermal power facility to be built in the Mid West, acording to a report in Science Network Western Australia.
Solastor, in consortium with Carbon Reduction Ventures, plans to build a 1.5 megawatt grid-connected concentrated thermal power station near Morawa.
Incorporating heat storage technology, the project will involve the construction of a concentrated solar power (CSP) generation facility on approximately 8 hectares of land just south of the Mid West town.
The project will initially comprise nine modules and each module consists of an energy storage tower containing the thermal storage medium graphite and around 100 highly reflective toroidal heliostats.
[Read the full article at Science Network Western Australia.]