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The Northern Territory has a total population of only 250,000, of which 180,000 live in the Darwin area. There is no way that spending the enormous amount requ
by caf 7y ago
The Northern Territory has a total population of only 250,000, of which 180,000 live in the Darwin area.
There is no way that spending the enormous amount required to connect it to the east coast grid would be an efficient use of resources.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoReally depends on the path an East-West line takes, cost per mile (edit: kilometer), existing generation fuel costs, possible future generation locations, etc. It’s not just about existing load centers (the population you mention), but possible future generators (big solar plants in the middle of the desert).
- caf 7y agoThere is no shortage of suitable locations available for big solar plants that are thousands of kilometres closer to the big load centres than the Northern Territory is.
- dwd 7y agoThere are also plans to go the other way and connect WA to Indonesia with the potential to tap into the electricity market of a population 10x larger than Australia's. https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2017/11/30/australias-mega-hybrid-plant-to-export-power-to-indonesia/ https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2017/11/30/australias-...