Australia: World’s largest solar project will se
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https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/australia-asia-power-link/
Three stand-out superlatives
Several superlatives stand out about the project:
AAPowerLink will build the world’s largest solar farm on the remote inland of Australia’s Northern Territory.
It will include the world’s largest battery, near the territorial capital of Darwin.
And it will feature the world’s longest submarine power cable, connecting farm and battery to Singapore, thousands of miles to the northwest.
All that adds up to the largest solar energy project in the world, so far. When it’s up and running, sometime in the 2030s, AAPowerLink is expected to generate an output of 6.4 gigawatts (GW), about 4GW of which are destined for Darwin and its surroundings, with 2GW to be transported by cable to the distant city-state at the southern tip of the Malay peninsula.