Australia Fast-Tracks Plan to Send Solar Power to Singapore (1)

摘要

Australia granted “major project status” to an ambitious A$22 billion ($16 billion) plan to export powerfrom a giant solar farm in the country’s north to Southeast Asia via undersea cable.The status recognizes the “strategic significance” of the project, which is expected to inject billions ofdollars into the economy and create thousands of jobs, Angus Taylor, minister for energy and emissionsreduction, said in a statement Wednesday.