Sun Cable appoints trio to discover financiers for vast solar-storage interconnection project

• Sun Cable has actually relied on a trio of economic consultants as it wants to advance its multi-gigawatt solar-storage project to economic close by 2024.

Sun Cable, the designer behind the vast, multi-billion-dollar Australia-Asia PowerLink project planned for Darwin, has appointed Macquarie Capital, Moelis & Company and MA Financial Group as joint monetary consultants for the project as it seeks to progress in the direction of procedure.

The experts will certainly be entrusted with raising the more than AU$ 30 billion (US$ 20.4 billion) of capital needed to fund the project which could integrate as high as 20GWp of solar PV and also 42GWh of energy storage.

Sun Cable wishes to reach economic close in 2024 and also begin building shortly after, with a very first stage presently slated for completion in 2027.

That initial stage will provide electricity to Darwin initially ahead of the center ending up being completely functional by 2029.

David Griffin, founder as well as chief executive officer at Sun Cable, stated the project has the "economic climates of scale needed to provide zero exhaust dispatchable electricity" with reliability and price stability.

The appointment of financial experts comes just weeks after the project was regarded investment prepared by government company Infrastructure Australia and months after the developer raised US$ 150 million in Series B funding to advance the project.