"SolRio Organization for Climate Change Mitigation Inc. has proposed a large-scale solar-powered desalination project at the decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station.
SunRiver has the potential to produce 1.1 billion gallons of potable water daily (SolRio Preliminary Project Analysis) by utilizing water from the Pacific Ocean in an ecologically sensible manner. The project aims to reduce pressure on surface water resources and to create “drought-proof” watershed for the American Southwest."
Power to operate the SolRio Project will be generated by a combination of solar panels and grid storage batteries. The combined area of these solar plants is 39 square miles and 12 GWh of storage are used (SolRio Preliminary Project Analysis).
It makes sense that they would want to use renewable energy for the desalination plant, the carbon emissions would be huge if they burnt fossil fuel.
WaterCorp uses power from a wind farm as an off set for the power they use at the Perth Seawater Desalination Plant at Kwinana.
The Kwinana plant could take advantage of wave energy, being so close to where CCE will have their wave array off Garden Island. Instead of needing a gigantic solar array distant from the desalination plant, they could pay for a wave array just off shore from where they are. The size of the array would only be limited by how much WaterCorp wanted to pay for the clean energy.
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