The Sun Cable project stretching across the Northern Territory is covering 12,000 hectares of outback desert, this $30 billion infrastructure project will generate 20 gigawatts of solar power — enough to supply all of Singapore and power 3 million Australian homes

 

Australia is building the largest solar farm on Earth — and it will power a whole country.

The Sun Cable project stretching across the Northern Territory is not a solar farm. It is a solar nation. Covering 12,000 hectares of outback desert, this $30 billion infrastructure project will generate 20 gigawatts of solar power — enough to supply all of Singapore and power 3 million Australian homes simultaneously through the longest undersea electricity cable ever constructed.

Australia receives more solar radiation per square metre than almost any nation on the planet. The Northern Territory alone absorbs enough sunlight daily to power the entire global economy twice over. Sun Cable is finally turning that extraordinary natural advantage into exportable, bankable clean energy.

The project deploys next-generation bifacial solar panels mounted on single-axis tracking systems that follow the sun from dawn to dusk, squeezing 25% more output from every installed module. Paired with a 36-42 GWh battery storage system on site, power delivery becomes 24-hour and uninterrupted.

First exports are targeted for 2031. When complete, Australia will become the world's first solar energy superpower — selling sunshine to Asia the way the Middle East once sold oil.

Sun Cable Project Report (2024)

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