Solex Project Carnarvon
Semiconductors - Greys Plain, Western Australia, Australia
Solex Project Carnarvon Employees
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The Solex Project is a applied demonstration of using renewable energy to compete with fossil-fuel based commercial manufacturers in an open market.The solar farm provides energy for an ice-works to produce commercial quantities of ice to compete with fossil fuel based products. Not only are greenhouse gas emissions avoided through the use of solar energy but considerable reductions are made by avoiding transport costs.Competitors face high costs of transport and storage when product is manufactured out of the region. Solex Solar ice is produced on site with only the capital cost of the solar generation system to be recovered. That is a significant economic advantage.The Solex Project not only avoids GHG emissions and reduces fossil fuel consumption but it also serves as a case study model from reducing existing GHG emissions through the Chattamarra Project trial to repair rangelands degradation. The Solex Project also serves as a research/demonstration facility to demonstrate to researchers and the broader population how fossil fuel dependency can be substituted not only for economic benefit but also to provide benefits to society and the natural environment.An example of benefits to tertiary education can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHr_hifp--I Edith Cowan University students are regular visitors to the Solex Project as part of their annual natural science study tours.
