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Indonesia has emerged as an attractive investment destination for the Republic of Korea (RoK).

Carbon dioxide emitted in Singapore would be brought to Australia for permanent storage under a plan being hatched by Chevron and a Japanese partner.

Longer high-voltage cables, improved direct current technology coupled with the ability to lay cables at depths of up to 3 kilometres have strengthened the case.

While near neighbours, the electricity generation of the countries of Southeast Asia couldn’t be further apart. Indonesia burns locally mined coal, Malaysia has reserves of oil and gas, while populous Singapore, Vietnam, and the Philippines, depend on fossil fuel imports. They could all benefit from increased solar imports, but higher grid capacities and interconnection are key for an opportunity to unlock the power of the sun.

The uneven distribution of renewable energy supply and demand centres make interconnectors critical.

Singapore-based Sun Cable, which is seeking to develop the giant Australia-Asia PowerLink (AAPowerLink) consisting of up to 20 GW of solar and 42 GWh of energy storage on a 12,000-hectare site in the Northern Territory, is forming a consortium to advance sustainable smart energy grids in Asia.

If a nutter bulldozed an old-growth forest to build a solar farm, coal power would still emit over 300 times more CO2 per kWh generated.

ENERGY transition discussions tend to be abuzz with clunky terms such as carbon sequestration, refuse derived fuels and distributed energy systems that green energy advocates hope will become common parlance as they become more widely used.

An international group of Singapore and Australian research and corporate partners launched a network that aims to accelerate the creation of a regional green grid. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The project aims to be a major supplier of green energy to Singapore Read more at straitstimes.com.