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Australia will build the world's largest solar power plant's first power plant to be completed within three years

 Australian engineering services company WorleyParsons launched a large-scale construction of solar power plant projects, each cost about 1 billion Australian dollars, the generating capacity of 250,000 kilowatts, the first power plant to be completed within three years, will be the world's largest solar power Plant.

 According to Taiwan's "China Times" reported, WorleyParsons in BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and other big companies start with the support of a survey to identify  WorleyParsons this solar power plant depends on clients to provide funds, if the first plant to be completed before the end of 2011, it is necessary to ensure that the sources of funds early next year.

 WorleyParsons estimates in Australia's first large-scale solar power generation plant of the cost per kilowatt for about 15 minutes Australia, the company's chief executive EcoNomics of the absurd Erzi (Peter Meurs) said that the future with the relatively new technology available, These costs of power generation plant is expected to decline.

 In the Australian government for the suppression of carbon emissions and set renewable energy targets and the introduction of the carbon rights, WorleyParsons is working to in 2020 in Australia before the end of the construction of 34 solar power plants to meet the 40 percent renewable energy needs.

 WorleyParsons solar power plant to not lose money, the right of carbon pricing will be substantially higher than the 10 Australian dollars per tonne, if set at 50 Australian dollars per tonne, while solar energy will be relatively cheap.  In the height of carbon trading in Europe, in December this year due to the current price of carbon per tonne for 26 euros (about 44 Australian dollars) from top to bottom. 

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