Vast, the Australian concentrated solar power (CSP) company, has installed the receiver tower at its Goodna test facility, preparatory to reaching financial close and constructing the 30 MW Port Augusta project, which will have 8 hours (240 MWh) of storage depth. Concentrated solar power died off in 2010s after initial support in Spain and from the Obama Administration, then staged a resurgence since 2020 as a small, auxiliary part of Chinese’s hybrid renewable desert megaprojects, also making a showing in Chile’s northern desert – and Australia, thanks to Vast. Concentrated Solar Power involves a mirror array focusing sunlight on a central tower, to produce high temperatures stored and moved around in various fluids like molten salt, then later put through…