By Arzu Addison

Australia  has announced huge, high-performance 17-20 GW solar power plant powered by a 36-42 GWh battery.

What’s really amazing, maybe it’s not the scale and performance of the project, it is The electricity generated will be used not only by Australia but also by Singapore 5,000 kilometers north.

At the bottom of the sea

Sun Cable Project It is located in northern Australia, 800 kilometers south of Darwin, near the town of Elliot Have a seat – at least that’s where the massive solar park goes. one for this 120 km2space In order of size Siófok. There is a large area in the area of ​​the country called the Northern Territory, which is fifteen times the size of Hungary, and the central part of the desert receives plenty of sunshine all year round.

Solar panels will be manufactured in Darwin and the panels It will be installed in 2024. Peak performance is expected to be between 17-20 GWh and will complement the battery-powered storage system 36-42 GWh.. Just for the sake of preservation, it looks a lot like Giga Nevada’s Axis or VW’s futuristic European battery factories. annually. The project will be completed, of course, in several years.

Part of the electricity will save 80,000 Darwins, for which an 800 km high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission network is being built, which has a lower loss than conventional AC and is therefore particularly suitable for long distance bridging. However, the real trick would not be this, but 4,200 km HVDC pipeline from Darwin to Singapore on the Pacific Ocean will be covered close 15 per cent of the energy needs of six million cities will save. Australia-Asia PowerLink (AAPowerLink) is a project in the project and means a really big deal. The company estimates that Asia’s energy needs will double over the next three decades as everyone wants to get rid of fossil energy. The cable, which was provided with the support of the Indonesian government, will run alongside the island nation.

A high voltage DC network with a length of 800 + 4200 km will be built. This is slightly more than the distance between Budapest and the North Pole. Source: Sun Cable

Project completed It is estimated to cost 30 billion Australian dollars, which is approximately 7650 billion HUF. It is planned to supply Darwin with electricity from 2026 and Singapore from 2027, Full capacity will be reached by 2028.