Progress surges ahead on MRO power solutions

The Mid West outback region of Western Australia may be the ideal site to build highly sensitive radio telescopes, but the challenges of building a scientific facility in such a remote location require specialised design and infrastructure solutions.

The MRO is home to the CSIRO ASKAP telescope and the international Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). It will also soon be home to a permanent observatory power station; a hybrid plant that will use both diesel generators, photovoltaic solar cells and a large lithium battery storage system.

Added by Flornes Yuen on 2015-12-01