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Weatherill solar plan is economic nonsense
The decision by the Weatherill State Labor Government to build a solar thermal power plant at Port Augusta at a cost of $650 million doesn’t make economic sense.
The plant will supply about 5 per cent of South Australia’s demand. The plant is rated at 150-megawatt capacity and will have eight hours of battery storage (theoretically – best-case scenario). The new power agreement means that the Government is not mak…

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