Creating Solar Generated Electricity at 10 to 14 cents per Kilowatt Hour

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has announced the award of a $5.65 million grant from the Australian Solar Institute towards three major solar research projects worth a total of $16 million.

The funding will be used to develop a large scale solar air turbine, a thermoelectric generator which is expected to reduce the cost of solar energy by 10 per cent or more, and lastly to conduct Australia’s first investigation of its type of the effects of the irregular nature of sunshine – solar intermittency – on electricity grids. CSIRO’s Energy Transformed Flagship Director, Dr Alex Wonhas, said the funding will further enable CSIRO’s solar thermal research to remain at a world-class level.

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