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Project overview
  • Lead Organisation

    CS Energy Ltd

    Location

    Chinchilla, Queensland

    ARENA Program

    Advancing Renewables Program

  • Start date

    3 March 2011

    End date

    8 March 2016

  • Project Partners
    None
    This renewables project was completed on 8 March 2016.

Summary

The Kogan Creek Solar Boost Project set out to install a 44 megawatts of concentrating solar power (CSP) at CS Energy’s 750 megawatt coal-fired Kogan Creek Power Station.

Project innovation

The project intended to demonstrate the hybridisation of solar thermal and coal-fired power generation on a large scale, and provide key insights into the construction and operation of hybrid renewable/fossil thermal plants.

Benefit

Valuable insights gained during the project will be used to strengthen future renewable energy developments.

Last updated
03 February 2021
Last updated 03 February 2021
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