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WHYALLA SOLAR CITY SOUTH AUSTRALIA SOLAR STATE ?

WHYALLA SOLAR CITY SOUTH AUSTRALIA SOLAR STATE ?. ENERGY INITIATIVES WHYALLA SOLAR CITY?. Minimum energy efficiency standards Mandatory solar hot water heaters, equivalent CO2 reducing technology Solar hot water subsidy Funding for wind speed study/Pt. Lowly Peninsula

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WHYALLA SOLAR CITY SOUTH AUSTRALIA SOLAR STATE ?

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  1. WHYALLA SOLAR CITY SOUTH AUSTRALIA SOLAR STATE ?

  2. ENERGY INITIATIVES WHYALLA SOLAR CITY? • Minimum energy efficiency standards • Mandatory solar hot water heaters, equivalent CO2 reducing technology • Solar hot water subsidy • Funding for wind speed study/Pt. Lowly Peninsula • 20% renewable energy, 100% policy adopted • 7 star rated housing project • Council funded ANU feasibility study (1998) on renewable energy/desalination • Big Dish project • UniSA Regional Sustainability Centre/Institute for Sustainable Systems and Technologies

  3. ANU BIG DISH Energy production + desalination = Whyalla Solar Oasis

  4. WHY THE BIG DISH? • Multi purpose – electricity generation, thermal applications, thermochemical energy conversion • Baseload and peak load • High temperatures for thermochemical production of hydrogen and emission free liquid fuels – gasification of coal & biomass, natural gas reforming, thermochemical water splitting • Integrates with industry standard turbines • Modular, suitable for mass production • Scaleable, suitable for niche applications to large utility scale • Wide choice of sites, less planning issues – marginal land, grazing lands, co-located fossil power plants

  5. ADVANCED ELECTRICITY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY • Partnership – Federal Government, Wizard Power, Whyalla City Council • $16 million demonstration project • Big Dish combined with molten salt energy storage or ammonia dissociation and ammonia synthesis process to produce on demand peak load or base load power. • International showcase for baseload and on-demand solar power

  6. Thermochemical Energy Storage for On-Demand Power Ammonia Synthesis Reactors 500oC 700oC NH3 + 66.8kJ/mol ↔ 1/2N2 + 3/2H2 • Builds on over 100 years of industrial ammonia production • NO losses at point of storage – chemical bonds not thermal storage • Indefinite storage time - minutes, days, weeks, months • Suitable for mega-scale solar fields 500MW+ • Enables hybridisation with molten salt thermal storage for 250MW+ scaleability • Enables separation of power plant from solar field by using ammonia as energy transport fluid • Wizard Power hybrid thermochemical / thermal storage patent lodged 2009 and being evaluated for implementation as part of Whyalla Energy Storage pilot plant

  7. WHERE TO NEXT? • Contract signed with the AGO • Site work has commenced • Big Dish, molten salt energy storage and power block construction starts 2010 • Initially 4 dishes (.5 MW)

  8. The Big One! • 40 MW (plus) solar thermal plant subject to successful bid – Federal Renewable Energy Demonstration Program • $230 million investment • = installing 40,000 standard 1 kw photovoltaic systems. • 65,000 tonne reduction in GHG emissions • Equivalent to taking 18,000 medium sized cars of the road.

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