A group of global renewable energy players including developers WP Energy Asia, InterContinental Energy and OEM Vestas plans to build a 6GW hybrid wind and solar plant in Western Australia that would feed power via a long-distance subsea trunkline to Indonesia.

The Asian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH) project, three years in development, aims to provide cost-competitive electricity to meet the Southeast Asian island nation’s power demand and renewables targets, while addressing energy security challenges.