Australia plans world's largest solar power plant construction

Australian engineering services company WorleyParsons launched a large-scale solar power plant construction projects, each cost about 1 billion Australian dollars, the generating capacity of 250,000 kilowatts, the first power plant to be completed within three years, will be the world's largest solar power Plant.

WorleyParsons estimates in Australia's first large-scale solar power generation plant of the cost per kilowatt for about 15 minutes Australia, the company's chief executive EcoNomics of Peter Meurs said that the future as new technologies come out, the cost of power generation plant can be Wang declined.

In the Australian government for the suppression of carbon emissions and set renewable energy targets and the introduction of the carbon emissions, WorleyParsons is working to in 2020 in Australia before the end of the construction of 34 solar power plants to meet the 40 percent renewable energy demand .

WorleyParsons solar power plant to not lose money, the pricing of carbon emissions will be substantially higher than the 10 Australian dollars per tonne, if set at 50 Australian dollars per tonne, while solar energy will be relatively cheap. Carbon emissions trading in the height of Europe, due in December this year of carbon emissions per tonne at current prices of about 26 euros (about 44 Australian dollars).

Source: 中国新闻网 Aug. 13, 2008