Australia 'nods' for project to transmit electricity by submarine cable to Singapore

Australian Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said SunCable’s major Australia-Asia power interconnector project would help meet growing demand for renewable energy both at home and abroad. Sun Cable said solar power supplies are expected to begin in the early 2030s.

Rows of solar panels facing the sky in the town of Walkaway (Australia) in October 2012.

According to Reuters, under the project, Australia will transport electricity from a giant solar farm in the north of the country to Singapore via a 4,300 km long submarine cable.

Ms Plibersek added that the vast solar farm would generate enough energy to power 3 million homes. “It would be the largest solar installation in the world and would make Australia a world leader in green energy,” she said.

Over two development phases, the project aims to provide up to 6 gigawatts of green electricity to large industrial customers in Darwin (northern Australia) and in Singapore.

“Sun Cable is now focused on the next phase of planning to advance the project towards a final investment decision in 2027,” Sun Cable CEO Cameron Garnsworthy said in a statement. Cameron did not provide details of the company’s funding plans.

Sun Cable said it is in talks with Singapore's energy regulator on conditional approval for the cable connection component of the project and with the Indonesian government on the logistics of installing and maintaining the cable in Indonesian waters.

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