Point Paterson Desalination Plant

rdf:langString Point Paterson Desalination Plant

rdf:langString Point Paterson Desalination Plant

rdf:langString Multi Effects and Reverse Osmosis

rdf:langString A$370 million

rdf:langString The Point Paterson Desalination Plant was a planned municipal-scale solar-powered desalination plant with land-based brine disposal near Point Paterson in the locality of Winninowie in the Australian state of South Australia about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south of the city centre of Port Augusta. The Point Paterson Project was to utilise a salt flat owned by a salt company but which has not been in use for solar salt production for decades. The plant would have integrated renewable energy and desalination technologies to create environmentally-friendly electricity and water. In particular, the project would have significantly reduced the usual greenhouse impacts associated with grid electricity demand for desalination. The project had attracted the interest of internationally renowned climatologist, the late Professor Stephen Schneider, who joined the Board of in 2006. If the plant had been built, it was expected to produce 5.5 gigalitres of water per year, enough to supply the needs of 34,000 people. Port Augusta (13,257 people) would receive 2 gigalitres per year free of cost during the first two years of the plant's operation. The plant would have been configured to expand if need be, with a potential output of 45 gigalitres per year. The project never received enough funding, and the company was declared insolvent in 2014.

rdf:langString Salt Harvesting

rdf:langString Solar Thermal Generation on site

rdf:langString Project cancelled

rdf:langString More than 100% of Spencer Gulf