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And Australia already has experience [1] of building that type of link. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basslink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basslink
by rjsw 6y ago
And Australia already has experience [1] of building that type of link.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basslink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basslink
- reaperducer 6y agoAnd Australia already has experience [1] of building that type of link. And according to your link, Australia's Basslink is owned by the government of Singapore. So that helps explain why they aren't afraid to do this. They've done it before.
- ggm 6y agoWhich had extended breakage: they ran it "hot" and remediation was expensive.
- Reason077 6y agoBasslink is a fairly run-of-the-mill HVDC interconnector by world standards at 500 MW and 370 km. The longest undersea interconnector currently under construction is the North Sea Link between the UK and Norway (700 km, 1400 MW): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Link At 3700 km, Australia-ASEAN would be far beyond the length of anything that has been built or considered to date!