Australia Approves US$13.5 Billion Project To Export Solar Energy To Singapore
Australia Approves US$13.5 Billion Project To Export Solar Energy To Singapore
Australia said on Wednesday (Aug 21) it had given the go-ahead for a A$20 billion (US$13.5 billion) solar project that plans to ship energy from a giant solar farm in the country's north to Singapore through a 4,300km undersea cable.
澳洲週三（8月21日）表示已批准價值200億澳元（135億美元）的太陽能項目，計劃通過一條4300公里的海底電纜，從該國北部的巨型太陽能農場輸送能源至新加坡。
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said SunCable's flagship Australia-Asia power link project would help meet the growing demand for renewable energy at home and abroad.Plibersek said the vast solar farm would generate enough energy to power three million homes and would include panels, batteries and eventually, a cable linking Australia with Singapore.
環保部長Tanya Plibersek表示，SunCable的旗艦澳洲-亞洲電力連接項目將有助於滿足國內外日益增長的可再生能源需求。 Plibersek表示，這座龐大的太陽能電站將產生足夠的能源，爲三百萬戶家庭供電，並將包括太陽能板、電池和最終連接澳洲與新加坡的電纜。
"It will be the largest solar precinct in the world and heralds Australia as the world leader in green energy," she said.
「這將是世界上最大的太陽能區，標誌着澳洲成爲綠色能源領域的世界領導者，」她說。
A final investment decision is expected in 2027 with electricity supply to begin in the early 2030s, according to SunCable.
SunCable預計2027年作出最終投資決定，供電將在2030年代初開始。
The approval comes with strict conditions to protect nature and the project must avoid the habitat of greater bilby, which are small rabbit-like marsupials with long floppy ears, Plibersek said.
Plibersek表示，批准附帶嚴格條件以保護自然，項目必須避免較大大耳袋短鏈有袋類動物的棲息地，這些動物類似於兔子，有着長長的耷拉耳朵。
Over two stages of development, the project aims to deliver up to 6 gigawatts of green electricity to large-scale industrial customers in Darwin, the capital city of Australia's Northern Territory, and in Singapore.The approval comes as the centre-left government ramps up renewable energy projects even as the opposition coalition proposes building nuclear plants to replace coal-fired power by 2050, in a country where nuclear power is currently banned.
在兩個開發階段中，該項目旨在向澳洲北領地首府達爾文和新加坡的大型工業客戶交付高達6千兆瓦的綠色電力。儘管反對派聯盟提議在2050年之前建造核電廠取代燃煤發電，以太陽能電力代替煤炭電力，但中左派政府正加速可再生能源項目。而澳洲目前禁止使用核能。
SunCable, owned by billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, said the approval was "a vote of confidence" in the project.
億萬富翁Mike Cannon-Brookes擁有SunCable，表示批准是對該項目的「信心投票」。
Cannon-Brookes, the co-founder of tech firm Atlassian turned environmental activist, last year said the project was viable and that outside investors would be drawn to the project.
科技公司Atlassian聯合創始人、轉型爲環保活動家的Cannon-Brookes去年表示，該項目是可行的，外部投資者將被吸引至該項目。
"SunCable will now focus its efforts on the next stage of planning to advance the project towards a final investment decision targeted by 2027," SunCable Australia Managing Director Cameron Garnsworthy said in a statement, which did not provide details of its financing plans.
SunCable現在將致力於下一階段的規劃工作，以推動該項目朝着2027年的最終投資決策目標，SunCable澳洲董事Cameron Garnsworthy在一份聲明中表示，未提供其融資計劃的細節。
SunCable said it was in talks with Singapore's energy regulator on the conditional approval for the project's cable inter-connector component and with the Indonesian government on building the cable in its waters.
SunCable表示，正在與新加坡能源管理機構就項目的電纜互連組件的有條件批准進行討論，並與印尼政府就在其沃特世修建電纜進行洽談。
The project received clearance from the Northern Territory government and the territory's environment watchdog last month.
該項目上個月獲得了北領地政府和該地區環保母基的批准。
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