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Sun Cable was a colossus that collapsed under its own weight

It wasn’t just the giant egos in the power project. It was economics, engineering and physics too gigantic to stack up. 

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It’s doubtful the $35 billion Sun Cable project went into voluntary administration because of a disagreement between its billionaire backers. It failed because it was always going to fail.

Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew Forrest have fallen out over the Sun Cable solar power transmission project. Bloomberg, David Frish

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Matthew Warren is a former chief executive of the Australian Energy Council, the Energy Supply Association of Australia and the Clean Energy Council.
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    Original URL: https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/sun-cable-was-a-colossus-that-collapsed-under-its-own-weight-20230112-p5cc1b