Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) corroborates that Australia is building the world's largest solar power tower of its type at the National Solar Energy Centre headquartered in Newcastle, New South Wales.

According to iTWire, the director of CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship Dr. Alex Wonhas states that the new technology will shape the way for solar power of the future, which only requires the air and sun to generate electricity.

He also added that the field will be used to upgrade the technology to make it an economical, more efficient source of energy suitable for many desert locations in Australia and even the whole world. This new resource will also improve science by using a genuinely operating solar thermal field to experiment ways to make the process more proficient and cut-down the cost.

The resource will be located on approximately 4,000 square meters of land. It will be the world's largest solar power Brayton Cycle tower once it is completed.

The CSIRO solar power tower will consist of about 450 heliostats (devices that track movement of the Sun by using a mirror) that will reflect sunlight onto a 30 meter tower.

The heliostats are redirected continually along a fixed axis to a stationary receiver based on the Sun's movement across the sky.

Collected sunlight will then be used to produce super-heated compressed air at temperatures up to 1652 degrees Fahrenheit which is equivalent to 900 degrees Celsius for a turbine of Brayton Cycle.

The latest solar power tower is anticipated to be fully operational by March next year.