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  • Vast Energy secures $180m grant for first-of-a-kind solar thermal hub at Port Augusta
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    Vast Energy secures $180m grant for first-of-a-kind solar thermal hub at Port Augusta

    Vast’s latest ARENA grant will underwrite at least half of what it needs to build the concentrated solar project.
    Rachel Williamson
    Mar 13, 2025
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  • Vast Solar reboots Port August solar thermal plans, with $110m federal funds
    Solar

    Vast Solar reboots Port August solar thermal plans, with $110m federal funds

    Plans to build a solar thermal power plant in Port Augusta are back on the table, after Vast Solar wins federal funding of $110 million.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Apr 29, 2022
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  • SolarReserve signs manufacturing MOU for solar tower project, but financing delayed
    Solar

    SolarReserve signs manufacturing MOU for solar tower project, but financing delayed

    SolarReserve signs MOU with Heliostat SA to manufacture and assemble the heliostat components for world-leading 150MW solar tower and molten salt storage facility proposed for Port Augusta.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Sep 18, 2018
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  • Coal communities lead march to clean energy
    Renewables

    Coal communities lead march to clean energy

    Port Augusta becomes latest Australian coal hub to embrace renewables – and just as well, considering new data on coal plant pollution.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Aug 15, 2017
    8
  • Solar

    How solar tower and storage won on costs

    SolarReserve says its winning solar tower and molten salt storage project can deliver dispatchable, renewable power at just $78/MWh. Why so low?
    Sophie Vorrath
    Aug 15, 2017
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  • Coalition seeks applications for solar thermal funds by end of year
    CleanTech Bites

    Coalition seeks applications for solar thermal funds by end of year

    Coalition seeks feedback on Port Augusta solar tower funding, but already appears to have agreed to equity funds rather than loan.
    Giles Parkinson
    May 24, 2017
    8
  • SA energy minister offers hope for solar thermal and storage
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    SA energy minister offers hope for solar thermal and storage

    SA energy minister warns dismantling state RET would succeed only in killing “dispatchable, baseload” solar thermal.
    Giles Parkinson
    Feb 14, 2017
    9
  • Former coal boss seeks approval for 300MW solar plant in Port Augusta
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    Former coal boss seeks approval for 300MW solar plant in Port Augusta

    Former head of Hazelwood coal generator proposes 300MW PV plant, possibly storage, as part of major renewables push.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Oct 21, 2016
    5
  • SolarReserve aims to build 6 solar tower power plants in South Australia
    Solar

    SolarReserve aims to build 6 solar tower power plants in South Australia

    SolarReserve unveils plans for six large scale solar tower and molten salt storage plants in South Australia, but says it needs a contract to build the first one. But will the state government reach for the sun, or fall back on old gas plants?
    Giles Parkinson
    Sep 13, 2016
    35
  • New hope for solar towers, but South Aust. loads dice to favour gas

    New hope for solar towers, but South Aust. loads dice to favour gas

    New energy tender could provide new avenue for solar towers with storage as South Australia seeks new entrants into electricity market to reduce the stranglehold of a small group of gas-fired generators. But the government has loaded the dice in favour of a previously mothballed but now operating gas generator.
    Giles Parkinson
    Sep 8, 2016
    24
  • Port Augusta 375MW solar and wind energy park approved for development
    Renewables

    Port Augusta 375MW solar and wind energy park approved for development

    DP Energy has been given the green light by SA govt to develop 375MW solar and wind Port Augusta Renewable Energy Park.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Aug 8, 2016
    14
  • Port Augusta is at centre of our renewable transition – now isn’t the time to turn back
    Renewables

    Port Augusta is at centre of our renewable transition – now isn’t the time to turn back

    There are lessons for South Australia and the rest of the country in how Port Augusta has gone about their transition to renewable energy so far.
    Sam Johnson
    Jul 29, 2016
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