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Mon, 6 February 2012
Hyperion Energy, a Perth-based solar technology company, is seeking approval to build Australia’s first solar power plant using solar updraft technology.
The $1.6 billion plant, to be located in Tuckanarra in the mid-west region of Western Australia, will involve the construction of a 1 km-high solar updraft tower, and will be placed at a site expanding 127,000 hectares.
The technology to be used at the site involves the heating of air via collector panels, which is then sucked through a central vertical cylindrical tube (in this instance the 1 km-high solar updraft tower) to drive turbines for electricity generation.
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