It’s an ambitious project that was destined to be difficult.
The mission: To turn the blistering heat of the Northern Territory into a solar energy powerhouse supplying electricity to Singapore and Darwin.
The method: By building a giant 20-gigawatt solar farm — supported by the world’s biggest battery network — that connects to Darwin, before continuing to Singapore via a 4,200-kilometre-long cable running along the sea floor.
The cost: More than $30 billion.
The Sun Cable project plans to send solar energy generated in the NT to Singapore via an undersea cable. (Supplied: Sun Cable)
The promise
When Sun Cable launched its enormous Australia-Asia PowerLink project in 2018, the company offered a new vision for Australia as a…