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The Big Dish is a parabolic dish concentrator developed by the
ANU Big Dish solar
Wizard Power
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The Big Dish is a parabolic dish concentrator developed by the Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...
's Solar Thermal Group.
The initial prototype, SG3
, was constructed on the Canberra campus of the Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...
in 1994. A modified version of SG3 was exported to Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center at the Ben Gurion University in Israel. In 2006, a joint project led by the Solar Thermal Group with commercial partner Wizard Power, and funding from Australian's Government's Renewable Energy Development Initiative,
began the design and construction of SG4
. SG4 is located next to the SG3 dish, and was completed in 2009.
Wizard Power held the patent rights for the SG4 Big Dish structure and was planning on developing commercial installations of hundreds of dishes delivering tens to hundreds of megawatts of power. In 2013, the first of these projects, the Whyalla Solar Oasis, which would use 300 Big Dishes to deliver a 40MWe solar thermal power, was canceled after the consortium failed to meet deadlines. In June 2013, Wizard Power entered voluntary administration, and ceased operations later that year.
See also
*Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...
* Solar thermal collector
A solar thermal collector collects heat by Absorption (optics), absorbing sunlight. The term "solar collector" commonly refers to a device for solar hot water panel, solar hot water heating, but may refer to large power generating installations ...
* Concentrating solar power
Concentrated solar power (CSP, also known as concentrating solar power, concentrated solar thermal) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight into a receiver. Electricity is generated whe ...
(CSP)
* Solar tracker
* SolarPACES
* Wizard Power
References
External links
ANU Big Dish solar
Wizard Power
company website {{DEFAULTSORT:Solar Thermal Energy Solar thermal energy Energy conversion Solar energy in Australia