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 ...
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 ...
The Snowy 2.0 Pumped Storage Power Station – simply known as Snowy 2.0 – is a giant power generation project in Australia that is designed to supply 2.2 gigawatts of capacity and 350,000 ...
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 ...
Mr Barnes confirmed to a Senate estimates committee this week that Snowy was negotiating with Italy’s Webuild over amendments to the fixed-price contract in order to get construction of the project ...
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, ...
Snowy Hydro will not be able to move its stuck tunnel-boring machine (TBM) until it proves to the New South Wales environment department that doing so will not cause "further damage" to the ...
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 ...
MELBOURNE, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Australia's government-owned Snowy Hydro on Wednesday named the former boss of Contact Energy CEN.NZ, Dennis Barnes, as its new chief executive, to replace its long-time ...
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 ...
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