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Australian renewable energy company SunCable has announced it has obtained principal environmental approval from Australia’s Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority to develop its Australia-Asia Power Link (AAPowerLink) project.

The objective of the AAPowerLink project is to harness energy from solar panel farms in Australia’s reliably sunny Northern Territory, in an area known as Powell Creek in the Barkly region.

This renewable energy will be stored in a nearby battery storage facility and then transmitted 24/7 to Darwin and Singapore via a high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system. This includes 800km of overhead transmission to Darwin and 4,300km of subsea cables to Singapore.

According to SunCable, AAPowerLink is the world’s largest renewable energy and transmission project in development, and is projected to be one of the largest economic industrial developments in Australian history.

The development of the project will take place over two stages, delivering...

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  • If should be noted that SunCable went into voluntary administration in January 2023 and was taken over by Grok Ventures in September 2023.

    The critical part of the program - the manufacture of the undersea HVDC cable -  was not mentioned in this press release.

    The original plan was the creation of a HVDC  cable manufacturing plant in Tasmania, which was announced on November 5, 2023. 

    Peter Brooks

    Palm Bay 

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