David Griffin
David Griffin
Sun Cable
David Griffin was noted as one of Australia's top 100 Green Power Players by The Australian newspaper in 2022.
Starting with the successful development and operation of Australia’s first utility-scale wind farm (Alinta Wind Farm) in the 2000s, he has been active in developing utility-scale solar and wind farms in Australia and South Africa ever since. Through his own development companies, his chairmanship of Terrain Solar, and during his time as General Manager of Development at Infigen Energy, he has developed gigawatts of wind and solar farms.
Whilst travelling across Australia, he was always struck by the abundant solar resource and suitable land that was available for renewable electricity generation. Whilst the combination of solar and land resources meant that Australia could comfortably meet its domestic renewable electricity demand, David was more focussed on how to serve the vastly larger and rapidly growing loads to Australia's north. His analysis of high voltage direct current submarine cable technology at the start of 2018, concluded that this key enabling technology had evolved sufficiently to allow the first intercontinental transmission link to be developed.
As a result, Sun Cable was founded with the initial objective of developing the Australia-Asia PowerLink, a first of a kind in terms of the scale of dispatchable renewable generation and intercontinental transmission.
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