An Australian company called Multinational Sun Cable is close to building its mega renewable energy project. One of the largest developments of its kind in the world will eventually be able to provide 3.2 gigawatts of clean energy from Australia to Singapore. The predecessors of the project were introduced by Origo in this article and this article.
The Australia-Asia PowerLink (AA PowerLink) project will be one of the largest developments in clean energy in the world, and the Australian company behind it, Multinational Sun Cable, is now one step closer to realizing this, he writes. Mining.com.
The company recently announced that the Indonesian government has proposed using Indonesian territorial waters as a route for transmission cables, and the country’s Ministry of Transport has given permission to evaluate this possibility.
The $22 billion AA PowerLink project is located on 12,000 acres and operates between 17 and 20 gigawatts of solar capacity in northern Australia.
The project will also have impressive energy storage capacity globally, with a total of 36-42 GWh of energy storage. The cables will extend north to the coast and then connect to a 4,200 km high-voltage DC cable system that will transmit power to Singapore through a few Indonesian islands. Indonesian investment could reach $2 billion.
Sun Cable expects the project alone to be able to supply 15 percent of Singapore’s electricity needs from 2028 onwards. The plan is for power production to start in Australia as early as 2026.
In addition, the project is expected to reduce the Asian country’s carbon dioxide emissions by 6 million tons per year, enabling Singapore to achieve its 2030 emissions reduction target.
For comparison, if AA PowerLink were built, it would be nearly ten times the world’s largest 2,245 GW solar farm in India and have more than thirty times more energy storage capacity than CEP Energy’s 1.2 GW, projected in 2023. It will It is commissioned in New South Wales, Australia.
