White Cliffs Solar Power Station
by Jean-Louis Klein & Marie-Luce Hubert
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White Cliffs Solar Power Station
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Jean-Louis Klein & Marie-Luce Hubert
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Photograph - Photograph
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White Cliffs Solar Power Station was Australia's first solar power station. It was located at White Cliffs, New South Wales, which was chosen as it has the highest insolation (measured amount of sunlight over a given time) in New South Wales and was constructed in 1981. Constructed by a team from Australian National University, the station consisted of fourteen three-meter parabolic dishes, each covered by more than 2000 mirrors and mounted on a heliostatic mounting. The dishes each focussed the sun's rays on a collector, where water was boiled. In 1996 the station was converted to photovoltaic. The dishes were resurfaced, and the original collectors each replaced by a cluster of 16 water-cooled photovoltaic cells. In its new form, the station delivers up to 45kWe.
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July 14th, 2015
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