South Australia okays giant solar thermal plant from SolarReserve

Enlarge / A rendering by SolarReserve of what the Aurora site will look like after it’s completed. (credit: SolarReserve) On Monday the South Australian government awarded a key contract to a company called SolarReserve to build a 150MW solar thermal plant near Port Augusta. The California-based company uses giant mirrors, called heliostats, to direct sunlight […]