Australia’s Mega-Power plant
"The A$420 million project will generate 270,000 MWh per year, enough for more than 45,000 homes. It will also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 400,000 tonnes per year and aid in reducing salinity. The first stage is expected to be completed in 2010 with full commissioning due in 2013."
The project that worth millions of A$ will produce the world’s largest and most advanced solar power plant. The power plant will use the latest technology to produce 154 Mega-watt of sun powered energy. This great for any nation if you consider that the current photovoltaic (PV) Power Plants produce between 3 and 20 Mega-Watts of electricity. According to North West University Postgraduate School of Nuclear Science and Engineering director Professor Gideon Greyvenstein the cost of providing 18GW of nuclear power by 2025 will be $45 billion, or $2.5 billion a GW.Those critical of the government's nuclear plans consider this figure to be an underestimation as it is based on a (unproven) timeline of 50 to 60 months for the construction of a nuclear facility whereas World Energy Council research shows the average construction time to be 112 months.
