A simple choice - Coal gasification or solar thermal power ?  

While South Australia is leading the way in adopting renewable energy in Australia (recently passing the 50 per cent renewable energy mark), not everyone wants the state's future to be solar powered.

ReNew Economy reports that there are proposals to build a gas fired power plant with the fuel coming from coal gasification in the recently closed Leigh Creek brown coal mine (ignoring the dismal history of this process elsewhere in the country) - Not dead yet: Miners want to “gasify” closed brown coal mine in SA.