{"id":42022,"date":"2021-08-30T02:10:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T16:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aumanufacturing.com.au\/?p=42022"},"modified":"2021-08-30T10:20:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T00:50:49","slug":"sun-cable-brings-australian-manufacturing-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aumanufacturing.com.au\/sun-cable-brings-australian-manufacturing-boost","title":{"rendered":"Sun Cable brings Australian manufacturing boost"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Peter Roberts<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Originally envisaged as 14 GW solar farm coupled with 33 GWh of battery storage, a 750km overhead transmission line, and a 3,800km HVDC submarine cable, proponents of the $26 billion project are now scaling up plans as the economics of harvesting power in Australia for energy-poor Singapore stack up better than previously expected.<\/p>
According to a report in the authoritative pv-magazine, the company backed by Andrew Forrest and Mike Cannon-Brookes will announce scaled up plans in September, a move which will have implications for the company’s manufacturing proposals for Darwin.<\/p>\n
Part of the economic sense of the project is the factory efficiency and quality that comes from using the pre-wired Maverick solar PV system designed by Sydney-based manufacturer 5B.<\/p>\n
5B’s revolutionary design, conceived by founders Chris McGrath and Eden Tehan in 2013, allows the panels to be rolled out rapidly on sites that require minimal preparation, ground penetration and trenching.<\/p>