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Port Augusta solar thermal power station rendering – SolarReserve<\/p><\/div>\n

There will be many happy folks in the South Australian city of Port Augusta this morning after last night’s Budget confirmed investment support for a solar thermal power station project.<\/p>\n

Under a Budget 2017 paper heading “Energy for the future – solar thermal in Port Augusta”, it states<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“The Government will make available up to $110 million for an equity investment, if required, to accelerate and secure delivery of a solar thermal project in Port Augusta, South Australia. This investment is designed to diversify energy generation and storage technologies and create new employment opportunities.”<\/p>\n

The Repower Port Augusta team are understandably quite chuffed – they’ve been battling for Federal Government support past lip service for a long time.<\/p>\n

” This happened because of everyone who has backed this push for years, solar thermal in Port Augusta is now its own budget line – congratulations!,” says a statement on Repower Port Augusta’s Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

“Now, all we need is the SA Government to commit to purchasing power from solar thermal in Port Augusta and we will win.”<\/p>\n

Award-winning plans<\/a> for Port Augusta that include the construction of solar thermal power<\/a> stations were first published in 2012.<\/p>\n

U.S. company SolarReserve has expressed serious interest in constructing a 110 megawatt facility incorporating 8 hours of full load storage (880 megawatts-hours) at a site around 30 kilometres north of Port Augusta.<\/p>\n

This single plant would be able to generate more than 495 gigawatt-hours of electricity annually; around 5% of South Australia\u2019s energy needs. SolarReserve says the Aurora project<\/a> could power 90,000 homes, day and night.<\/p>\n

It’s expected the project will generate thousands of direct, indirect and induced jobs.<\/p>\n

In other energy related spending detailed in the Budget, the Government says it will provide $86.3 million over four years from 2017-18 to boost gas production<\/a> and ” support affordable electricity prices for households and industry.”<\/p>\n

It’s a claim that will no doubt meet with some skepticism even given the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will be monitoring gas and electricity prices.<\/p>\n

An element certain to raise eyebrows in the gas package is the $30.4 million to be spent on scientific assessments on three prospective onshore unconventional gas<\/a> sites.<\/p>\n

Also on the cards is a buyback of the Snowy Hydro scheme<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The Government has commenced discussions with NSW and Victoria to acquire a larger share or outright ownership of Snowy Hydro to facilitate the effective and efficient expansion of Snowy Hydro 2.0.”<\/p>\n

Initial analysis and reactions to energy related Budget 2017 announcements can be viewed on The Conversation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There will be many happy folks in the South Australian city of Port Augusta this morning after last night’s Budget confirmed investment support for a solar thermal power station project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFederal Budget Confirms Cash For Solar Thermal In Port Augusta - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Budget 2017 has confirmed up to $110 million investment support for a solar thermal power station project to be constructed in Port Augusta, South Australia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-thermal-budget-australia-mb0030\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Federal Budget Confirms Cash For Solar Thermal In Port Augusta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Budget 2017 has confirmed up to $110 million investment support for a solar thermal power station project to be constructed in Port Augusta, South Australia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-thermal-budget-australia-mb0030\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-05-09T22:05:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/solar-thermal-port-augusta.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-thermal-budget-australia-mb0030\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-thermal-budget-australia-mb0030\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Federal Budget Confirms Cash For Solar Thermal In Port Augusta\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-05-09T22:05:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-thermal-budget-australia-mb0030\/\"},\"wordCount\":440,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-thermal-budget-australia-mb0030\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/solar-thermal-port-augusta.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar & Storage News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-thermal-budget-australia-mb0030\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-thermal-budget-australia-mb0030\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-thermal-budget-australia-mb0030\/\",\"name\":\"Federal Budget Confirms Cash For Solar Thermal In Port Augusta - 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