http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-14/solar-thermal-power-plant-a...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-...r-plant-announcement-for-port-augusta/8804628

A 150-megawatt solar thermal power plant has been secured for Port Augusta in South Australia, State Premier Jay Weatherill has announced.
Construction of the $650 million plant will start in 2018.
Aurora facts:

• 150-megawatt solar thermal power with eight hours of storage
• Plant will deliver 495 gigawatt hours of power annually, or 5 per cent of SA's energy needs
• Equivalent to powering more than 90,000 homes
• Located 30 kilometres north of Port Augusta
• Company says it is "completely emission free"

Mr Weatherill said the Aurora Solar Energy Project would be ready to go in 2020 and would supply 100 per cent of the State Government's needs.
The Government will pay a maximum of $78 per megawatt hour.
Mr Weatherill said the solar thermal plant was "the biggest of its kind in the world"