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Opportunity for Port Augusta to be repowered with solar thermal energy

Repower Port Augusta, 30 Oct 15 In incredibly exciting news, after returning from a visit to a massive solar thermal plant in the United States, the federal local member for Port Augusta Rowan Ramsey has revealed to The Transcontinental that US solar thermal giant SolarReserve have made a bid to build solar thermal with storage in Port Augusta!

 After a long running community campaign, numerous studies and actions from people like you this revelation is a huge step forward in the community driven push to Repower Port Augusta with solar thermal.

 So, what does this mean?

 The ACT Government are using a policy called a reverse auction to help them meet their 100% renewable energy target by 2025. This is a policy where they effectively bid for projects to buy renewable power from and early this year they called for bids from projects across the country from solar with stoage.

 This is the policy we called on the SA Government to adopt in our submission to the state government that many of you signed onto.

 We are still waiting on the result of the bid, but we know the bid for solar thermal from Port Augusta is one of thirty from across the country.

 Can you share this great news on Facebook and call on the State and Federal Government to back SolarReserve’s bid to build solar thermal in Port Augusta?

 It’s a huge step forward and a testament to the community campaign backed by people across the country that SolarReserve are ready to build solar thermal in Port Augusta.

October 29, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | solar, South Australia