“The Alice Solar City Consortium is working closely with Alice Springs-based renewable energy specialists, CAT Projects, to investigate technology providers capable of constructing a large scale solar power station”, said Alice Solar City GM Brian Elmer.
“We invite the wider renewable energy industry in Australia to express their interest to develop technologies that are technically and economically suitable for Alice Springs,”said Mr Elmer.
The solar power station at Ilparpa is expected to have a capacity of approximately 1 MW, and it is hoped that it will be providing clean energy for the region by 2010.
Possible examples of alternative technology include tracking solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, solar concentrating technologies and solar thermal systems.
Solar technology providers are invited to submit proposals for the Ilparpa and Alice Springs Airport iconic projects by Monday 8 June 2009.
Suitable technologies that are identified through this process may be invited to develop detailed plans with the respective project partners Power and Water Corporation and the Alice Springs Airport. Funding support for successful proposals will be sought from the Australian Government.
The first of the large scale projects in the Alice Springs program have included the largest building mounted solar PV system in the Southern Hemisphere, which was completed in February at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, and the current economic feasibility study of the solar air-conditioning project at Araluen.
