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Miners back solar power study

MINING heavyweights including BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto are backing a study by Australia’s biggest engineering company WorleyParsons into the construction of a series of 250-megawatt solar-thermal power stations in Australia, with the first station anticipated to be up and running by 2011.

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Miners back solar power study

According to a news report on The Australian website, WorleyParsons EcoNomics managing director Peter Meurs said the initial station would cost around $A1 billion with $34 billion in projects to be built...

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