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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.
Matthew WarrenEnergy expertIt’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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