Category: hydro-electricity

Energy Tsar Board Axed as Ministers Clean up Transition

A gas code of conduct will enforce fair prices and support the power supply as energy ministers back more resources for electricity grid connections. But the Energy Security Board of top officials will be scrapped from July 1 and replaced with a new fit-for-purpose body, ministers announced on May 19 after meeting in Alice Springs….


Regional Tasmania to Deliver Renewable Energy to Mainland Australia

The Australian government will utilise Tasmania’s renewable energy potential through significant investment in an interconnector to bring hydroelectricity to the mainland. The Marinus Link, a 1,500-megawatt capacity undersea and underground cable, will export low-cost, reliable hydroelectricity from Tasmania’s Battery of the Nation and across the state into the national electricity grid when it is most…