With all the attention that Albany is getting, they may want to revisit this old proposal:
"The Water Corporation has identified two locations near Albany, on Western Australia's south coast, as potential sites for a desalination plant.
The plant is just one of a number of different options being considered as a way of securing the region's long-term water needs.
The corporation says one of the sites is near the Albany wind farm and the other is near the south coast water treatment plant."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-02-27/desalination-plant-proposed-near-albany/1603460
They should be able to share infrastructure if they co locate the solar farm and the wind farm near the desalination plant.
That way the MOABAB (Mother of all Big A$$ Batteries) could service the lot.
