{"id":287300,"date":"2024-08-21T10:44:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T08:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=338858"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:02:35","slug":"one-million-solar-panels-in-the-australian-desert-to-provide-clean-energy-to-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/one-million-solar-panels-in-the-australian-desert-to-provide-clean-energy-to-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"One million solar panels in the Australian desert to provide clean energy to Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO of Atlassian, has received approval from the Singaporean government for his plan to transport electricity from Australia to Singapore. <strong>We are about to witness something truly incredible in renewable energy.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Disney+\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/246b1fd4-6164-4c6f-9318-27e1cb587dc6\/489019137\/disney-plus-logo\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Disney+<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/disney-plus.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/disney-plus.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The project<\/strong>, known as Australia-Asia Power Link (AAPowerLink), <strong>aims to create a 12,000-hectare solar park in a remote area of the Northern Territory, Australia.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This installation will be capable of <strong>generating up to six gigawatts of electricity<\/strong>, and the accompanying batteries will allow the juice to flow 24\/7. <strong>An 800 km cable will connect the solar park to the city of Darwin<\/strong>, with a population of approximately 140,000, <strong>which will consume around 4 GW of the energy produced.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"World&#039;s biggest solar farm plan for Australia\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j_h4HUCKgVM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The energy will flow through an underwater cable of over 4,000 km <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A large portion of the remaining energy will be transmitted through a 4,300 km undersea cable connecting Darwin to Singapore. <strong>The island nation will rely on the project for over ten percent of its energy consumption.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cannon-Brookes&#8217; personal investment vehicle, Grok Ventures, owns SunCable, the company developing AAPowerLink. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SunCable welcomed the government approval, and the government celebrated the project. The Minister for the Environment and Water, Tanya Plibersek, hailed <strong>the project as the world&#8217;s largest solar park and Australia&#8217;s largest renewable energy project.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scale of the solar park is daunting, but not insurmountable. The 800 km transmission line to Darwin is also not intimidating, as it will share a railway corridor and therefore be accessible. It is also not very long, so to speak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Australia approves hub to export solar power to Singapore<br>-Australia on Wednesday gave the green light to a A$20 billion ($13.5 billion, \u20ac12.138 billion) solar project that plans to deliver energy from a giant solar farm in the country&#39;s north to Singapore through a 4,300\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uRWKlxqsrE\">pic.twitter.com\/uRWKlxqsrE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; George Christian (@GeorgeC60736450) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgeC60736450\/status\/1826160894377865559?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the submarine component has its critics, including Australian entrepreneur Bevan Slattery, who has extensive experience in building undersea data cables. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slattery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/sun-cable-bold-vision-bevan-slattery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"argued\">argued<\/a> <strong>that the Darwin-Singapore route traverses some of the most dangerous waters in the world due to high levels of tectonic and volcanic activity<\/strong>. He is also concerned about the intense maritime traffic that passes near the proposed route, and points out that there have been over 70 cable repairs within just 70 km of Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/Cable-submarino-de-energia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-338860\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Transmission loss is another issue. Out of the over 4,000 km of cable, Slattery estimates that there will be a significant energy loss, so according to him, solar parks closer to Singapore would be more profitable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another critic is Cannon-Brookes&#8217; former business partner, mining billionaire Andrew Forrest, who <strong>prefers to use giant solar parks to produce hydrogen for export<\/strong> and hydrogen-powered electricity generators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now all they have to do is fund it, build it, and prove their critics wrong. All while leading Atlassian on their own after the departure of co-founder Scott Farquhar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO of Atlassian, has received approval from the Singaporean government for his plan to transport electricity from Australia to Singapore. We are about to witness something truly incredible in renewable energy. The project, known as Australia-Asia Power Link (AAPowerLink), aims to create a 12,000-hectare solar park in a remote area of the Northern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/one-million-solar-panels-in-the-australian-desert-to-provide-clean-energy-to-singapore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One million solar panels in the Australian desert to provide clean energy to Singapore&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9265,"featured_media":287301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":2},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-287300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311804,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287300\/revisions\/311804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287300"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=287300"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=287300"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=287300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}