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  • King Island controversy over windfarm

    May 31, 2013 - no Comments

    Hydro Tasmania has criticized an economic report on King Island’s $2 billion TasWind project which claims the wind farm will have a negative impact on tourism, and come at a

  • Slowdown at Hydro Tasmania

    May 24, 2013 - no Comments

    Hydro Tasmania, which last year announced a record $103 million profit, is likely to see its financial performance suffer as energy demand slows and the carbon price falls. The Tasmanian

  • Hydro Tas de-commissions dam

    May 3, 2013 - no Comments

    Hydro Tasmania (Hydro) is set to decommission the 35-year old dam at Lagoon of Islands in Tasmania’s Central Highlands and shore-up another. The decommissioning of the Lagoon of Islands dam

  • Hydro Tas plans $1.6b investment with Shenhua

    April 19, 2013 - no Comments

    Hydro Tasmania has announced it has inked a strategic cooperation deal with Chinese energy company Shenhua Group, to examine plans to develop and operate 700 MW of wind farms in

  • King Island residents meet on TasWind

    March 22, 2013 - no Comments

    King Island residents are divided on the plan for a 600 megawatt wind farm on the island, with divisions spilling over in a public meeting this week. Hydro Tasmania is

  • Coalition to compensate business if carbon tax scrapped

    February 26, 2013 - no Comments

    Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey says businesses adversely affected from the scrapping of the carbon tax may be offered compensation from government, should the coalition win at the next election. “If

  • Hydro looks offshore with Chinese partner

    February 8, 2013 - no Comments

    Tasmanian-owned Hydro Tasmania is looking at developing projects outside of the state in an expansion of the company’s recent partnership with Chinese state-owned energy company Shenhua Group Corp. subsidiary, Shenhua

  • Chinese buyer takes stake in Musselroe

    February 6, 2013 - no Comments

    Hydro Tasmania has reportedly sold  a 75 per cent stake in its Musselroe wind farm project to Chinese energy company, Shenhua Clean Energy Holdings for $89 million. Hydro Tasmania will

  • Hydro consults King Island on giant windfarm

    January 23, 2013 - no Comments

    Hydro Tasmania is continuing consultations with King Island residents in an effort to gain community support for construction of the biggest wind farm in the southern hemisphere on the windswept

  • Musselroe on track for March launch

    January 22, 2013 - no Comments

    Tasmania’s Musselroe wind farm is now two steps closer to generating power by its launch date of March 2013 with the installation of the first fully completed turbine and the