Both Singapore and Indonesia have to be a bit concerned that dealing with Australia means dealing with a police state so here's hoping they get some sort of indemnification for said dealings.
From the Asia Times, September 25:
Sun shines on Indonesia in massive solar cable dealSun Cable's $21.8 billion Australia-Singapore solar power export deal will effectively pay to pass through Indonesian waters
JAKARTA – Lured by the promise of US$2.8 billion in local investments, the Indonesian government has given the go-ahead for an Australian company to lay a 4,500-kilometer high-voltage power cable through Indonesian waters on its path from the world’s biggest solar farm to Singapore and perhaps beyond.
Sun Cable’s $21.8 billion project, a joint venture between mining magnate Andrew Forrest and fellow tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, aims to meet up to about 15% of Singapore’s energy needs, which now depend solely on natural gas, and reduce its carbon emissions by six million tonnes a year.
Perth-born Forrest, 59, founder and former chief executive of the Fortescue Metals Group, and Cannon-Brookes, 41, co-founder and co-chief executive of software company Atlassian, have a collective net worth of more than $40 billion.
Forrest made his fortune in West Australia’s booming iron ore industry, but Fortescue’s reported control over vast reserves of hard-rock lithium, the mineral of the future for the electric car industry, has given him a keen interest in renewable energy.
The company, which is using solar energy to power some of its operations, recently formed a partnership with PT Adaro Energy, Indonesia’s largest coal company in East Kalimantan, to fast track the development of a global green hydrogen industry.
Indonesia will not receive any of the solar cable’s electricity, but it will benefit from the $1 billion to be spent during the construction phase, expected to run from 2024 to 2028, and another $1.5 billion on operational costs, including a marine repair base and technological transfers.
In exchange, Sun Cable has received a development permit for the Indonesian section of the 3,750-kilometer Australia-Asia PowerLink cable through the heavily trafficked Lombok Strait and Java Sea, and expects to receive environmental clearance by 2023.
Sun Cable chief executive David Griffin says the 12,000-hectare solar farm, to be built near the town of Elliott, 400 kilometers south of the Northern Territory capital of Darwin, has been expanded to a planned 20 gigawatts (GW) with a staggering 35-42 gigawatt-hours of battery storage.....
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I suppose if it came down to it I'd put Singapore's Gurkhas up against the whole lot of the Aussie cops whose only skill seems to be beating disarmed civilians. Seriously, have you seen some of the videos?
Previously:
August 2020"Australians have $16B plan to beam solar energy onto Asia's power grids"
November 2020
Guy Hands Family Office buys largest private cattle company in Australia (also the land that Singapore's electricity is supposed to be generated on)
July 2020
"Could a US$14 billion Australian solar farm provide a fifth of Singapore’s energy?"
May 22
BP Smacks Exxon Upside Head With New Green Hydrogen Scheme (can SunCable to Singapore be far behind?)
A couple of the approaches being talked about, make hydrogen in
Australia and send it to Singapore or use submarine electrical cable to
carry (solar) electricity to Singapore.
In 2018's "Dyson chooses Singapore for first electric car plant" I retold the story of a retired Gurkha soldier who took on 40 robbers/would-be gang rapists on his train trip home.
The group he went up against were armed with knives, firearms and swords while he had his Gurkha kukri knife.
He killed three, wounded eight and chased the other 29 off the train. The young lady was not raped.
