VIDEO: SOUTH AUSTRALIA WILL BUILD THE WORLD'S LARGEST SINGLE-SOLAR-TOWER!

A few months ago the state government of South Australia announced a deal with Tesla, to create the largest lithium-ion battery storage facility in the world, and now they have revealed plans to build the biggest, single-tower solar thermal power plant on the planet. The power plant is proposed to output 150 megawatts. The Aurora Solar Energy Project will be built and managed by SolarReserve – who is one of the leaders in large-scale international solar thermal projects – and the company behind the Rice Solar Energy Project that was to be built in California, but which has now been put on "indefinite hold" following changes to investment tax credits for renewable energy.

The solar energy is focused by arrays of heliostats onto a central tower where molten salt technology is used to store the energy as heat so the plant can generate electricity day and night. 

The Aurora Solar Energy Project will be able to power an estimated 90,000 homes and generate 495 gigawatts hours of electricity per year, which equates to about 5 percent of South Australia's energy needs. The Aurora Solar Energy Project will kick off construction next year and it is hoped to be ready to produce electricity by 2020.Take a look at how SolarReserve's molten salt energy process works in the video below.