Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has prevailed over mining tycoon Andrew Forrest in their battle to control the future direction of the ambitious Sun Cable renewable electricity in the Northern Territory. The two originally shared the same vision for the $30 billion project – the largest investment in revewable energy in the world. It was to…
Sun Cable, which is developing a proposal to supply renewably generated electricity from the Norther Territory to Singapore via undersea cable, has diversified its business offering with an agreement to supply energy to mining group Tivan Ltd. Tivan is progressing development of its Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron project project in the Northern Territory. Utilising its 100…
By Bruce Mountain, Victoria University Sun Cable – considered to be the world’s biggest renewable energy export project – announced last week it had entered voluntary administration following “the absence of alignment” with shareholders. Sun Cable is expected to cost over A$30 billion. It proposes to build an enormous, 12,000 hectare solar farm in the…
Sun Cable, the company behind bold plans to export green electricity from Northern Australia to Singapore, is now thinking bigger – of an Asia Green Grid Network to Advance renewable energy connectivity across the region. Announced at Singapore International Energy Week, the Asia Green Grid Network (AGGN) brings together leading renewable energy experts and nine…
Infrastructure Australia has announced that Sun Cable’s Australia-Asia PowerLink (AAPowerLink) has met all requirements of the Infrastructure Priority List, advancing the project to Stage 3 ‘Investment-ready’ status. The AAPowerLink is the world’s largest solar, storage and transmission system that will transmit renewable electricity from the Barkly Region of the Northern Territory to Darwin and Singapore.…
By Peter Roberts The Coalition has won federal elections on the basis that coal jobs must be protected and gas jobs developed in any switch to renewable energy. And what was going to replace our fossil fuel energy exports, a fear Labor also exploited in office developing not one, but three LNG gas export plants…
By Peter Roberts Such is the enormous scale of Sun Cable’s proposed Northern Territory solar farm and electricity export cable to Singapore than many have trouble believing that this energy – and soon to be manufacturing – megaproject is really getting underway. Originally envisaged as 14 GW solar farm coupled with 33 GWh of battery…
One of the most ambitious renewable power projects globally has moved a step closer with Sun Power signing an agreement with the Northern Territory to facilitate its planned Australia-ASEAN power link (AAPL). Sun Cable will prepare a Territory Benefits Plan, including an Aboriginal workforce development plan and local participation strategy, for its plan to supply…
Major Project Status has been granted by the federal government to Sun Cable’s proposed Australian-ASEAN Power Link (AAPL) linking the Northern Territory to Singapore. The project would ultimately cost billions, and includes a 15,000 hectare, 10GW solar farm, 22 gigawatt-hours of battery storage and a 3,000 kilometre long underseas power cable to take electricity to…
Tasmania’s Bell Bay is the preferred destination for making high-voltage DC subsea cables to be used to export solar energy from Australia, SunCable said over the weekend. According to a statement from the Tasmanian government on Sunday, a purpose-built cable factory would address supply constraints of HVDC subsea cable, with all advanced HVDC subsea cable…
