Australia is preparing to become home to the world's largest solar farm. It will come to life through a project so gigantic that it will generate enough energy to power even distant places such as Singapore.
Sun Cable, the 10 gigawatt solar park, will occupy 120 square kilometers (expandable in a second phase) in a remote hinterland area in the country's Northern Territories. Construction will begin in 2023, will take advantage of all the latest photovoltaic technologies and its colossal dimensions will make it visible even from space.
The ambitious solar project The $ 20 billion Sun Cable was funded by the Australian government and private investors.
A complex and detailed work, which for this very reason will not only have positive consequences for the energy and economic component. This will benefit a robust supply chain, including logistics, maintenance, training and also employment for local indigenous communities.
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Once completed, the massive solar farm will initially provide renewable energy to communities in northern Australia and beyond. The second phase of the plan is to produce and export much of the energy to other countries.
It will be a sort of "Energy Wall of China".
According to Sun Cable CEO David Griffin, as much as two-thirds of the power would be exported to Indonesia and Singapore via high-voltage submarine cables. Specifically, the energy alone from this sort of “solar cable” will be able to power more than a fifth of the Asian city-state's energy needs.
Currently, Australia's global carbon footprint stands at around 5%. Such huge renewable energy projects like the Sun Cable solar park have all the potential to dent its emissions.
