{"id":40084,"date":"2020-05-27T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T20:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=40084"},"modified":"2020-05-27T07:00:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T20:30:57","slug":"sun-cable-survey-mb1539","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sun-cable-survey-mb1539\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Step Towards Sun Cable\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40085\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sun-cable-survey.jpg\" alt=\"Sun Cable survey ship\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sun-cable-survey.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sun-cable-survey-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sun-cable-survey-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sun-cable-survey-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Guardian Geomatics announced last week it had been awarded a cable route survey contract by Sun Cable for a proposed major PV project that will see solar electricity generated in Australia exported to Singapore.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The proposed Sun Cable project comprises a 10GW solar farm plus battery storage to be built on 15,000 hectares near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. The facility will consist of millions of solar panels rolled out (well, unfolded) using Australian company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sun-cable-5b-solar-mb1185\/\">5B&#8217;s Maverick system<\/a>. Sun Cable will produce equivalent to approximately 20% of Singapore&#8217;s electricity requirements &#8211; delivered from Australia via a 3,800km High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) submarine cable. The project will generate electricity for local consumption as well.<\/p>\n<p>Guardian Geomatics is an Australian owned and operated marine surveying company that provides services to the offshore oil, gas and renewable markets in Australia and Asia Pacific. The company seems pretty excited to have scored such a prestigious project.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGuardian Geomatics are always on the lookout for opportunities to improve our footprint and sustainability &#8211; this project is a step in the right direction and something we are very proud of,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/guardiangeomatics.com\/guardian-geomatics-awarded-prestigious-cable-route-survey-contract-by-sun-cable\/\"> said<\/a> Guardian Geomatics Commercial Director, Steve Duffield.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how mapping a cable route will improve their own sustainability, but it&#8217;s great they are stoked to be involved with something other than fossil fuels. While terms weren&#8217;t mentioned, this contract should also be a nice little earner for the privately held firm.<\/p>\n<p>Preparations for the marine surveying aspect of the Australia-ASEAN Power Link (AAPL) will commence this month, with the actual survey work starting later this year. At this point, sister company Guardian Offshore\u2019s vessel \u201cOffshore Solution\u201d (pictured above) will carry out the survey. The ship is a 54 metre DP2, Multi-Purpose Vessel built in the Netherlands in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/author\/rchirgwin\/\"> Richard<\/a> published an article in March on why Sun Cable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/suncable-hvdc\/\">chose DC for exporting solar electricity<\/a> to Singapore &#8211; it&#8217;s well worth a read.<\/p>\n<h2>Sun Cable&#8217;s Big Battery<\/h2>\n<p>In other recent news related to Sun Cable, the consortium behind the project has plans for 100MW\/200MWh battery to be established at Middle Arm on the outskirts of Darwin. It would be constructed on a 10ha site over a period of 12 months and Sun Cable hopes to have it commissioned by 2021-2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Proposal is a standalone facility and is separate to the Proponent\u2019s Australia-Singapore Power Link Project that was awarded major project status by the Northern Territory (NT) Government in July 2019,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/ntepa.nt.gov.au\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0007\/882007\/decision-statement-reasons-sun-cable-pty-ltd-middle-arm-battery.PDF\"> states<\/a> an NT EPA document.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, the battery will later form part of the AAPL project. Further details on the battery storage project can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/sun-cable-plans-darwin-big-battery-precursor-to-worlds-biggest-solar-and-storage-project-64297\/\">RenewEconomy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With Singapore reliant on imported Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) for 95% of its electricity; should Sun Cable go ahead it will be a winner for everyone involved &#8211; and the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian Geomatics announced last week it had been awarded a cable route survey contract by Sun Cable for a proposed major PV project that will see solar electricity generated in Australia exported to Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":40085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Another Step Towards Sun Cable\u00a0 - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Guardian Geomatics awarded a cable route survey contract by Sun Cable for a project involving solar electricity generated in Australia exported to Singapore\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sun-cable-survey-mb1539\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Another Step Towards Sun Cable\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Guardian Geomatics awarded a cable route survey contract by Sun Cable for a project involving solar electricity generated in Australia exported to Singapore\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sun-cable-survey-mb1539\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-26T20:30:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sun-cable-survey.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/sun-cable-survey-mb1539\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/sun-cable-survey-mb1539\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Another Step Towards Sun Cable\u00a0\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-26T20:30:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/sun-cable-survey-mb1539\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":479,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/sun-cable-survey-mb1539\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/05\\\/sun-cable-survey.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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