Repowering Port Augusta
Port Augusta is becoming a solar powerhouse
December 2012
From vision to reality
In 2010, South Australia's town of Port Augusta was at a crossroads - the town’s coal-fired power station was due to close, taking with it an important source of electricity as well as local jobs. Beyond Zero Emissions identified Port Augusta as the ideal place to build a solar thermal power plant – the first in a network of plants around Australia - by replacing the two coal power plants with concentrated solar power. The local community got behind the plan. Now, it's happening.
