The row between Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew Forrest over Sun Cable reveals the technical, economic and even geopolitical hurdles to completion
researching the feasibility of building power links between different regions was not promising for Sun Cable.
Konstantinou estimates energy losses even with the best high voltage direct current technology would be at least 15%. Boosters would also be needed to ensure voltage is maintained for the end users, such asSingapore itself is yet to commit funds or sign up as a customer.
Blakers said Sun Cable’s going to face “very stiff competition from similar projects located in northern Indonesia or on hydroelectric reservoirs in Borneo because they are within 50 to 500 or so kilometres across the shallow sea from Singapore”. The proposed Marinus Link, for instance, involves a 250km HVDC link across Bass Strait at an average depth of about 60m. The combined capacity in two stages would be 1.5GW with a total of more than $3bn. Stage 1, at 750MW, would be built by 2028 on current plans.
At home, solar farms like Sun Cable’s – with even bigger ones planned for the Pilbara and the Nullarbor- would be “unimaginably large”, and would carry impacts for indigenous sacred sites and the environment, said Jon Altman, a governance expert at the ANU.
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