Dr. Keith Lovegrove unveiled the ANU's new solar thermal dish in September at the SolarPACES international solar thermal conference in Berlin to much acclaim. This will be the first time it will be presented in Melbourne. It is the world's biggest solar dish that comes with a mass production system that can build one dish a day. The dish has the highest optical efficiency of any commercial solar technology in the world and a field of 500 produces 100MW electrical power. ANU's dishes can be used on undulating ground, which is difficult for current solar thermal systems that use mirror fields or troughs. Dr. Keith Lovegrove will also talk about replacing all of Australia's energy needs with this solar technology used in conjunction with thermal salt storage. Dr. Keith Lovegrove is a senior lecturer in Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the Australian National University (ANU). He heads the ANU Solar Thermal Group which works on a range of projects involving high and low temperature thermal conversion of solar energy. This includes looking at dish and trough concentrators and thermochemical energy storage. He is widely published in scientific journals and has advised the Australian Government on CSP . Dr Lovegrove and his team are at the forefront of International research into concentrated solar power.

1. Concentrating Solar Thermal Gathers Momentum – presented at ANSZSES Solar 09, modified for beyond zero emmissions K Lovegrove, Solar Thermal Group – School of Engineering CECS, Australian National University ( http://solar-thermal.anu.edu.au )

3. Concentrating Solar Power is: Parabolic Trough Central Receiver Paraboloidal Dish Linear Fresnel

4. 354MWe “SEGS” plants going strong after 20 years Steam turbines are the dominant power house

7. Slide courtesy of Michael Geyer

9. Spain is leading thanks to generous feed in tariff - 400MWe under const plus “true pipeline” projects of14.7GW @Sept09

10. South West USA states about to happen?

12. Several serious players for commercial Tower systems

13. Slide from Kolb, SolarPACES 09

14. Slide from Kolb, SolarPACES 09

15. Slide from Kolb, SolarPACES 09

17. Ausra CLFR @ Liddell 40MW Solar boiler preheating 285 º C, 70b

18. Storage recognised as immediate competitive advantage for CST

19. Laing SolarPACES 09, reports a 1MWh combined storage system for steam

20. Slide courtesy of Michael Geyer Andasol I is new benchmark for solar plants with storage

21. andasol 1 storage system: 􀀹 NITRATE MOLTEN SALTS (60% NaNO3 + 40% KNO3) 􀀹 TWO TANKS: 􀀹 COLD: 292 ºC 􀀹 HOT: 386 ºC 􀀹 14 m HEIGHT, 38.5 m DIAMETER 􀀹 1010 MWh CAPACITY = 7.7 EQUIVALENT HOURS = 28.500 TONNES 􀀹 HEAT EXCHANGERS HTF/SALTS 􀀹 THERMAL DUTY: 131 MWt charging, 119 MWt discharging 􀀹 NUMBER OF UNITS: 6 􀀹 PUMPS: 4 UNITS IN COLD TANK (3 + 1), 3 IN HOT TANK

24. Australia? At least we are on the radar screen 

25. =1.3% global electricity Future Prospects – lessons from wind

26. Source: Sargent & Lundy, 2003

30. Site works started Feb 08…

32. Jig will be re-used on future Wizard Power projects

33. Photogrametry used to measure / adjust support point positions

34. Coils of sheet steel in…. Structural sections out On site containerised section rolling machine

38. 31 March 2009

57. 380 identical mirrors

60. Mirrors attached by gluing – no adjustment

63. First sun 29 June 2009

65. Only 80m 2 of mirrors were deployed

66. Whoops …..

72. Images of passing clouds are encouraging…

73. First operation with all mirrors

76. Whoops 2….. Image trajectory

77. Whoops 3…..

80. Lets try astronomy

81. Image of Jupiter

82. Jupiter Full Moon Full Moon over exposed

87. The real debate Australia needs to have

88. Exports Coal & Gas Crops & Algae Water Big Dish solar thermal concentrators used to produce hydrogen and liquid fuels (e.g. methanol) from high temperature solar conversion of coal, gas & biomass In the long term achieved by the thermochemical splitting of water 2012+ 2015+ 2020+ The Future - Exporting Solar Energy to the World Solar Powered Transition to Hydrogen & Emission Free Liquid Fuels Coal & Gas To Liquid Fuels Biomass to Liquid Fuels Thermochemical Water Splitting

90. Solar Power station to provide all of Japan’s energy needs ? Legend greater than 24MJ/m2day less than 24 but greater than 23mJ/m2day less than 23 but greater than 22mJ/m2day less than 22 but greater than 20mJ/m2day less than 20 but greater than 18mJ/m2day less than 18 but greater than 16mJ/m2day less than 16MJ/m2day 338km x 338km, 20% coverage of land with 20% efficient collectors