Singapore announces pilot plan to import electricity from Malaysia-no mention of the Australian-ASEAN Power Link (AAPL)Sun Cable : Questions for Angus Taylor, Twiggy Forrest, and climate warrior Canon-Brookes
by Ganesh Sahathevan
Mike Canon-Brookes is beleieved to have invested around AUD 1 Billion into renewables projects, including the Australian-ASEAN Power Link (AAPL)Sun Cable
The latest from Singapore, reported by Channel News Asia:
Singapore will import electricity from Peninsular Malaysia under a two-year trial, said the Energy Market Authority (EMA) on Monday (Oct 26 2020).
The trial aims to "assess and refine the technical and regulatory frameworks" for importing electricity into Singapore, said the authority in a press release.
This would help to facilitate larger-scale imports from the region in future, added EMA.
"To meet our climate change commitments, there is a need to change the way Singapore produces and uses energy," said EMA.
"Tapping on regional power grids for cleaner energy resources is one strategy to further diversify Singapore’s energy supply," it added.
In a keynote speech delivered at the opening of the Singapore International Energy Week, Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing said that the move is part of Singapore's plan to strengthen the "regional grid architecture".
"We will kick this off by importing 100 megawatts (MW) of electricity imports for a trial period of two years, to see how the market works ... This will allow the region to share the clean energy sources that different countries may have, and we’ll start this with Malaysia," he said.
"Once the concept takes off, we’ll be able to extend this to other regional players."
Readers will note that there is no mention whatsoever to the Australian-ASEAN Power Link (AAPL)Sun Cable.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Angus Taylor & Australian Government grant billionaires Twiggy & Canon-Brookes solar power to Singapore project Major Project Status: Still no word from Singapore if the supply will be accepted,so why is the Australian Govt throwing money at these billionaires at their sun light white elephant?
Renew Economy and others have reported:
Minister for industry, science and technology Karen Andrews said on Wednesday that the Australian-ASEAN Power Link (AAPL) for the massive project, planned for the Northern Territory’s Barkly region near Tennant Creek, had been granted Major Project Status.
Federal minister for energy and emissions reduction, Angus Taylor, said the Sun Cable project would maintain Australia’s position as an energy exporting powerhouse.
“Australia has long been a world leader in energy exports,” Minister Taylor said. “As technologies change, we can capitalise on our strengths in renewables to continue to lead the world in energy exports.”
Meanwhile Singapore has had nothing to say about buying this power, and neither have Indonesia or any other ASEAN Country.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Australian billionaires propose to do a Bakun where Olivia Lum failed: Twiggy & Canon-Brookes looking decidedly old school, taking after Ting Pek Khiing,and is PwC going to be answerable to investors in this remake of the mid-90s Bakun Undersea Cable disaster
First the Sydney Morning Herald headline, which seems not to have made any impact in Singapore:
Billionaires invest in 'massive' solar farm to supply power to Singapore
Australian billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest have joined a capital raising of "tens of millions of dollars" to build a huge solar farm in Australia to supply electricity to Singapore.
David Griffin, chief executive of Sun Cable, did not disclose the total investment other than to say it was less than $50 million. Mr Cannon-Brookes and his wife, Annie, were "lead investors" with their family firm Grok Ventures, while Mr Forrest tipped in funds from his Squadron Energy company.
The over-subscribed raising marks the start of what could become a $22 billion plan to build the world's largest solar farm with a 10-gigawatt capacity covering 15,000 hectares near Tennant Creek in the NT, and a 22GW-hour storage plant.
The project would aim to supply competitively priced electricity to the Darwin region and to Singapore via a 4500-kilometre high-voltage cable.
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