The project is the largest solar power plant in the world

As reported by Reuters in the near future Avtraliya announce a competition to create the world's largest solar power plant worth about 1.05 billion U.S. dollars. Power of solar power will be 1,000 megawatts, t. e. She will be at least three times more powerful than the largest available today, which is located in California.

In total, the new budget, the Australian Government plans to spend on. solar energy. about 4.5 billion Australian dollars (3.38 U.S. dollars). And his long-term plans - to ensure that by 2020 20 percent of energy in Australia was clean.

The new project is not the first environmental initiative, the acting Prime Minister of Australia. More recently, it was announced that funding for the establishment of the Institute for the Study of technology of carbon capture and storage (carbon capture and storage - CCS). As part of this technology will clean the emissions from thermal power plants carbon dioxide and dispose of the latter, for example, in the exhaust gas wells.

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