Round 3

This round invested almost $12 million in concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies. It focused on CSP storage and hybrid technologies and those that would reduce its field costs, as well as pilot demonstration projects to advance new CSP technologies.

In conjunction with State and Territory governments, the round also called for projects that will fast-track the commercial viability of solar power in remote regions of Australia. 
The leveraged project value is more than $31 million. 

• Vast Solar: Validation of performance modelling for 1.2MWth solar array with high temperature receiver and integrated thermal storage
• RayGen Resources Pty Ltd: Central Receiver CPV Pilot Project – Stage 2
• Solar Systems: High-efficiency multi-junction solar cells on low-cost, large-area silicon substrates
• Chromasun:  Lowest LCOE: Australian pilot of rooftop CST and CPV-T micro-concentrator systems
• Granite Power Ltd: Solar Supercritical Organic Rankine Cycle for power and industrial heat
• Barbara Hardy Institute, University of South Australia: Development of high temperature phase change storage systems and a test facility
• CSIRO: Evaluation and demonstration of hybridisation of CST with carbon capture and storage
• CSIRO: Solar hybrid fuels
• CAT Projects: Analysis of variations in instantaneous weather
• CSIRO: Solar energy management system for utilities