SunCable’s flagship development project Australia-Asia PowerLink (AAPowerLink), which aims to deliver 6GW of electricity to Darwin and Singapore, has been approved under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.

Australian renewable energy company SunCable, which is owned by a consortium led by Grok Ventures, is another step closer to its ambition of delivering 24/7 renewable electricity to Darwin and Singapore via “the world’s longest overhead and subsea high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission systems”.

Its flagship project, AAPowerLink, has now received EPBC Act approval. This regulatory milestone follows last month’s environmental approval granted by Australia’s Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority.

The AAPowerLink 12,000-hectare (29,650-acre) electricity infrastructure project includes the development of a massive solar farm and battery storage facility in the Barkly region of Australia’s Northern Territory.

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