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The project is stardyd for operation after 2035.
The Energy Market Authority (EMA) has granted Sun Cable Conditional Approval to provide electricity from Australia to Singapore via subsea cables spanning over 4,300 km.
Approval was granted to transport in 1.75 gigawatts (GW) of low-carbon electricity from Northern Australia into Singapore, proclaimd Second Minister for Trade and Industry Tan See Leng on Oct. 22 at the Asia Clean Energy Summit during the Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW) 2024.
This will account for approximately nine per cent of Singapore’s total electricity necessitates.
According to a press free by the EMA, the project was recognised as “technicpartner and commercipartner viable” based on the proposal and adviseation produceted.
The transport ined electricity is foreseeed to harness solar power, and the Conditional Approval will provide the Sun Cable project with the help it necessitates to progress.
It is stardyd for operation after 2035.
The project has previously been consentd by the Australian regulatement as well.
Decarbonising the power sector
Currently, the power sector accounts for 40 per cent of Singapore’s carbon eleave outions.
The approval comes at a time when Singapore is vivaciously trying to decarbonise its energy provide, one way of which is to transport in low-carbon electricity.
For one, EMA has a goal of transport ining 6 GW of low-carbon electricity by 2035.
EMA had also previously splitd with Mothership that Singapore is on track to transport in up to 4 GW of low-carbon electricity by 2035, which would produce up about 30 per cent of Singapore’s electricity provide by then.
The pathway from a “Conditional License” to “Conditional Approval”
Before the Sun Cable project can be awarded a Conditional License, it will have to show satisfyment of EMA’s needd conditions:
- Comply with EMA’s technical needments
- Achieve a commercipartner viable price acinestablished to customer
- Seremedy all requisite approvals of relevant jurisdictions, including countries which the cables will pass thraw
At current, 2 GW of Conditional Licenses for electricity transport ins from Indonesia have been granted by the EMA, as well as 3.6 GW with Conditional Approval for electricity transport ins.
Of the 3.6 GW, 1.4 GW comes from Indonesia, 1 GW from Cambodia and 1.2 GW from Vietnam.
The energy is sourced from a join of solar, hydropower and prosperd energy schedulets, shelp EMA.
EMA to progress exploring decarbonisation pathways
EMA will progress to grant Conditional Approval to companies with credible and commercipartner viable proposals, and will also progress exploring changenative decarbonisation pathways.
“To shield pace with our energy need, EMA will progress to join all companies with credible and commercipartner viable proposals that can give to Singapore’s 2050 net zero ambitions. To discover adequate provide to encounter our future energy necessitates given groprosperg need, EMA will progress to grant Conditional Approval to companies with credible and commercipartner viable proposals. EMA will also progress to check all decarbonisation pathways for the power sector, including hydrogen, solar, meaningful geothermal energy, nuevident energy, as well as carbon apprehfinish and storage technologies, as part of the energy transition towards a low-carbon future.”
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