Radio-emissions-sensitive hybrid power plant for telescope Electronics News
CONSTRUCTION is beginning on a radio emissions-sensitive Solar-Diesel hybrid Horizon power plant, to supply renewable power to the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory.
The Solar-Diesel hybrid Horizon power plant is specially designed to shield plant activity and produce zero radio emissions.
The generating plant will be built inside a ‘Faraday cage’ which will ensure any electrical fields will not interfere with radio astronomy activities.
The Faraday cage will capture the radio noise that is created in the plant, preventing the noise from contaminating signals being received by the radio telescope.
The hybrid power plant will be able to achieve a higher than average level of renewable solar energy into the network by using short term energy storage to balance out changes in the power station load.
Radio-emissions-sensitive hybrid power plant for telescope Electronics News