Acquasol Infrastructure Ltd.'s "Acquasol 1," a solar-gas hybrid power station and desalination facility, will be built south of Port Augusta, South Australia. To learn more, visit www.solardesalination.com.au

The first phase of the project includes construction and operation of a 150MW combined cycle gas turbine to provide base and peaking power. A 30MW parabolic trough concentrating solar power plant will later be added to provide solar thermal energy for generating electricity and desalination. Acquasol 1 will harvest byproduct brine on land into commercial grade salt.


A roughly 1.6-kilometer square parabolic trough mirror field will provide solar electricity.	A solar thermal storage facility, a gas turbine and desalination will also be included in the plant.

The underlying technologies are all proven. All have decades-long commercial operating histories. Acquasol 1 will merely bundle the technologies for the first time anywhere. Once demonstrated in Port Augusta, the concept can be replicated elsewhere in Australia and overseas where both water and power are needed.

"Acquasol 1" will be built entirely from proven technologies. They are:

• Combined cycle gas power plants have been in operation commercially worldwide
Australia Origin Energy, for example, operates several.

• Parabolic trough concentrating solar power has been operating commercially in
25 years. New concentrating solar power plants are being built in California (500MW)
(50MW), and 60MW of new capacity (“Nevada Solar 1”) recently came on line in
Nevada is now producing power for the electricity-hungry American southwest.

• Desalination, multi-effects desalination, as well as reverse osmosis, have been used in the Middle
East for years.

• Solar salt harvesting has been practiced commercially in Australia for over 150 years.

All of the technologies to be used commercially at “Acquasol 1” are robust, proven and cost-competitive.