News - January, 2006

21 May 2006

Hydro Tasmania rejects claim of financial crisis

 Hydro Tasmania is in a sound financial position.

Any inference that we face a cash crisis, as claimed in today’s Sunday Tasmanian, is nonsense.

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15 May 2006

New CEO announced

Hydro Tasmania’s Chairman Dr David Crean today announced the appointment of Vince Hawksworth as the organisation’s new Chief Executive Officer.
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12 May 2006

Hair razing for a good cause

Hydro Tasmania employees volunteered to put their heads on the line today for the Leukaemia Foundation’s annual event, the World’s Greatest Shave.
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9 May 2006

Basslink officially opened

The Basslink electricity interconnector between Tasmania and Victoria was officially opened today.

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29 April 2006

Basslink begins operation

Basslink, the 360 kilometre power cable interconnection between Tasmania and Victoria, commenced full commercial operation at midnight.
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23 March 2006

Lake Margaret Power Station to close

Hydro Tasmania has announced that the historic Lake Margaret Power Station on the West Coast will close from 1 July this year.
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6 March 2006

Hydro Tasmania Consulting and Roaring 40s to open India office

 Hydro Tasmania plans to open an office in New Delhi later this year to capitalise on significant consulting opportunities in the renewable energy sector in what is one of the world’s fa

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2 March 2006

Further Basslink commissioning tests

Hydro Tasmania has announced today that additional tests of the Basslink power cable are to be carried out, beginning in March, by the contractors to National Grid Australia, the cable’s owne

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27 February 2006

Hydro Tasmania cleaning up

Groups of Hydro Tasmania staff will be out and about tomorrow morning cleaning up sites in Hobart, the Derwent Valley and the Gordon Power Station near Strathgordon as part of its commitment to Bus

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6 February 2006

Hydro Tasmania wins ESAA 2006 Sustainability Report Award

Hydro Tasmania was today named winner of the Energy Supply Association of Australia’s 2005 Sustainability Report Award.
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