Snowy’s contingency to buy a fourth tunnel boring machine at a cost of $75m was first revealed by The Australian in February, as the company battled a series of construction challenges. An existing ...
Workers at a multi-billion dollar renewable electricity project dodged high-velocity shrapnel after the 'catastrophic failure' of an industrial-sized fan. An underground fan, approximately 2.5 metres ...
The chairman of government-owned Snowy Hydro dismissed as "fiction" on Friday a media report that the massive Snowy 2.0 expansion project for Australia's biggest hydropower scheme was facing a cost ...
Last night ABC’s Four Corners investigated the problem-plagued Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro power station, focusing on a bogged tunnelling machine, toxic gas and an unexpected volume of sludge. In March ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. SABRA LANE: Snowy 2.0 is a significant step closer today with the Federal Government stitching up a ...
Federal government owned utility Snowy Hydro says it is slowly regaining ground on the beleaguered Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro project, after a horror year that brought tunneling progress to a stand-still ...
Its progress, or lack thereof, has become a metaphor for the country’s attempt to wean its $2.5 trillion economy off its coal dependency. If Australia is to rapidly reshape its power generation system ...
More than 40 years after it was first built, Mr Turnbull will look to the massive project to again secure Australia’s energy future. He told reporters today that an extension dubbed Snowy Hydro 2.0, ...
The 'complex' Snowy Hydro 2.0 project continues to face delays, months after a sinkhole and a gas leak caused operational difficulties. ABC's Four Corners program revealed on Monday the $2bn project, ...
Most media attention on Snowy Hydro’s two mega-projects has been focused on the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme, understandably because of its scale. Meanwhile, the Hunter Power Project (HPP) has ...
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CARRINGTON CLARKE, REPORTER: The Snowy Hydro Scheme captures melting snow like this to help power Australia. Australia's most famous renewable energy project is made up of 16 large dams, 140 ...