[1] On 5 April 2019, South Australian Energy Minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan announced the cancellation of the project.

At that time, finance was not yet all in place, but SolarReserve still anticipated starting construction in mid-2018 and taking 650 workers two and a half years to build it.

[4] On 5 April 2019, South Australian Energy Minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan announced that he had been contacted by SolarReserve who said the project would not be going ahead.

[6] In May 2020, it announced that the first stage would open in mid-2021 with 70MW of solar panels, followed by a pilot Thermal Energy Storage System (TESS).

The Aurora plant had the capability of firming up variable renewables by providing stored power from hot salt after the sun had gone down and solar photovoltaic panels had stopped generation but, according to Buckley, there was probably no long-term contract on offer to provide for a fixed price for electricity from the plant, particularly during the evening peak hours of 6 pm to 8 pm.