Solar Systems is an Australian company that has constructed three

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stations in remote Indigenous communities the

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, Australia, using 30 solar concentrator dishes which together generated and per year. The sites are in

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and

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. This represents a saving of 420,000 litres of diesel fuel and 1550 tonnes of

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.Solar Systems projects
Solar Systems wins National Engineering Excellence award
In 2003, Solar Systems completed construction of the first concentrator dish power station at

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. Solar Systems is a winner in the 2005 Engineering Excellence Awards. The

Mildura Solar Concentrator Power Station The Mildura Solar Concentrator Power Station was a proposed concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar PV system to be built at Carwarp, near Mildura, Victoria, Australia. It was proposed by Solar Systems in 2006, which was acquired by Silex Syste ...

project to build a solar plant was announced in 2006 and expected to be completed in 2013. However, Solar Systems was placed under voluntary

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on 7 September 2009 placing the Mildura Solar Power Station project and the jobs of two-thirds of the workforce at risk. In 2011,

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purchased Solar Systems for $2 million.Silex shuts down Solar Systems dense array solar power business
/ref> The power stations that were then in service were purchased by the electrical utilities that had agreed to buy the power from them. Silex completed a 1.5 MW demonstration plant in April 2013; however, the project was abandoned in August 2014 due to a number of factors, including low wholesale electricity prices, a lack of commitment to clean energy by the

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and uncertainty surrounding the Renewable Energy Target (RET) in Australia. Silex shut down Solar Systems "dense array" solar power business in September 2015.

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Solar Systems to Build A$420 million, 154MW Solar Power Plant in Australia
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Solar Systems Makes Major Investment in Australia's Solar FutureBaseload solar prospect gets funding boost
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