World's Largest Solar Energy Project to Be Built in Australia, Equivalent to 20,000 Football Fields

World’s Largest Solar Energy Project to Be Built in Australia, Equivalent to 20,000 Football Fields

Written by Valdemar Medeiros

Published on 26/10/2020 at 14:02

Updated on 26/10/2020 at 14:09

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The World’s Largest Solar Farm To Be Built In Australia – But They Won’t Receive The Energy

A major renewable energy project in Australia, considered the world’s largest solar farm under development, has had its proposed location revealed. The $20 billion facility – the heart of an ambitious electricity network called Australia – ASEAN Power Link – will be built on a remote cattle farm in the Northern Territory, approximately halfway between Darwin and Alice Springs.

Solar Energy Project Is Equivalent To 20 Thousand Soccer Fields

The massive 10-gigawatt array – spread across about 20,000 soccer fields of photovoltaic panels – may be located near the heart of the Australian outback, but the energy harvested from the plant will be transported very, very far from the solar burns country. This is because the Power Link involves not only the construction of the largest solar farm in the world, which will be easily visible from space.

The project also includes the construction of what will be the world’s largest underwater power cable, which will export electricity from the Australian outback to Singapore through a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) network of 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles).

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For this transmission system to work, PowerLink, which is being developed by the Singapore company Sun Cable, will also need to build the world’s largest battery, which will be stationed near Darwin on the northern coast of Australia.

The idea is for the network to transport current from the array in Newcastle Waters about 750 kilometers north, where it will be stored in the Darwin battery.

Part of the current will enter the local Darwin grid, but most will be exported internationally through over 3,700 kilometers of underwater cables laid along the ocean floor, first through the waters of Indonesia, before finally reaching Singapore.

Once the electricity reaches its final destination, it is expected to power more than 1 million Singaporeans – about 20% of the population of the sovereign island – and ultimately, there are plans to supply energy to Indonesians as well.

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