The selection of Lake Cethana by Hydro Tasmania as the preferred pumped hydro site was made based on a multi-criteria analysis including technical, environmental, social and economic factors. One of these factors is the constructability of the project, including the physical characteristics of where the major infrastructure might go, such as the intake, water tunnels, underground power station and the upper water storage.Rock core retrieved from drilling for geological and [...]

The renewable energy industry was well represented yesterday at the The Future Jobs & Skills Expo - "Pathways to Your Future" at Burnie. Representatives from Hydro Tasmania, Project Marinus and UPC\AC Renewables Australia were on hand to talk about the types of jobs that will be created by the construction and operation of  these projects. The Tasmanian Energy Industry Workforce Development Plan 2020 - 2027 (Stage 1) identified the [...]

The Future Jobs & Skills Expo - "Pathways to Your Future", is on today in Burnie. You will have the opportunity to talk to people from the renewable energy sector and other industries such as agriculture, construction and manufacturing, as well as training providers. It is free to attend, and open from 12:30 - 4:00pm at the Burnie Arts & Function Centre, 77 -79 Wilmot Street, Burnie. Register here Image: [...]

Late last year, Tasmania achieved the capacity to provide all of its electricity needs using renewable generation sources. The increase in capacity was due to the construction of two new wind farms - Cattle Hill Wind Farm in the Central Highlands, and Granville Harbour Wind Farm on the West Coast. Granville Harbour Wind Farm is now fully operational, after satisfying performance testing and a compliance assessment by the Australian Energy [...]

Tasmania has around 475,000 registered light vehicles including cars, taxis and light commercial vehicles, which are driven, on average, around 11,000kms each per year. If all of those vehicles were replaced with electric vehicles tomorrow, instead of importing hundreds of millions of liters of petrol and diesel, the state would need around 500 to 1000 GWh of electricity - around 5 to 10% more than what is generated in Tasmania [...]

King Island's award winning hybrid off-grid power system is capable of 100% renewable operation uses wind, solar, storage and innovative enabling technologies to provide 65% of the electricity that was previously generated from diesel. It is now about to become the first power station in the world to simultaneously generate energy from three renewable resources: wave, wind, and solar. The UniWave 200, a 200 kW wave energy device, has recently [...]

There are a lot of major renewable energy projects on the go in the region. No matter what your interest is in a project - whether you are a community member, business owner, or are interested in future employment opportunities - community information sessions are a great opportunity to ask questions and make connections. Upcoming community information sessions in the next two weeks: LAKE CETHANA PUMPED HYDRO Wednesday, 10 February [...]

Tasmania's Draft Renewable Energy Coordination Framework has been released and is now open for public submissions. This document focuses on how to deliver orderly, sustainable and integrated large-scale renewable energy projects needed to unlock generation capacity, to achieve the Tasmania's 200% renewables target and ensure Tasmania is well placed to respond to the rapidly evolving National Electricity Market (NEM) transition. The Framework has considered key areas of interest including: [...]

Are you interested in finding out more about the proposed pumped hydro project at Lake Cethana? Information sessions will be held soon at Sheffield, Moina and Lorinna. Late last year, Lake Cethana was announced as the preferred first site to progress a feasibility assessment for pumped hydro, as part of Hydro Tasmania's Battery of the Nation initiative. Lake Cethana Pumped Hydro will take water from the western side of [...]

Are you planning to attend one of the information days this week for St Patricks Plains Wind Farm? You will need to register today by providing your name and email or phone number to Donna Bolton Email: d.bolton@epuron.com.au You can also keep up to date by joining the project's mailing list The revised layout involves 50 wind turbines. Twenty-one wind turbines from the earlier 67 turbine layout have been removed, [...]