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Hydro Tasmania this week hosted a group of national, state and territory energy and climate change ministers at Lake Cethana in northern Tasmania, the site of its proposed 750MW pumped hydro project.

Despite another challenging year with ongoing impacts from COVID-19, Hydro Tasmania has delivered significant achievements and a transformation of our business for the future, as outlined in our 2020-21 Annual Report tabled today in Parliament.

Hydro Tasmania has welcomed the 2022 Integrated System Plan confirming Marinus Link as “immediately actionable” and noting it should progress urgently. The 1500MW Marinus Link interconnector is a critical enabler of Battery of the Nation, Hydro Tasmania’s bold vision to maximise Tasmania’s hydropower capacity and add pumped hydro.

Larry is Hydro Tasmania’s longest serving current employee and this month, surrounded by his family, friends, and colleagues, officially retired after 57 years of dedicated service!

Entura wins a Spatial Enablement award for their work on Hydro Tasmania's Battery of the Nation initiative.

Every year, NAIDOC Week celebrates Aboriginal culture’s history, culture and achievements. In Tasmania, we are surrounded by the influence of this living culture. Our landscape was changed and managed by Aboriginal people for 40,000 years and still bears the signs if you know what to look for.

Hydro Tasmania welcomes the release of the draft 2022 Integrated System Plan (ISP) which has confirmed the importance of Marinus Link to unlocking Tasmania’s dispatchable energy capacity and long duration storage opportunities, now identifying it as an “actionable project”.

A plan to double Tasmania’s energy capacity and make it the renewable Battery of the Nation has moved a step closer.