Hydro Tasmania
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| legal form | Public company |
| founding | 1929 (as HEC); 1998 |
| Seat | Hobart , Tasmania |
| management | Grant Every-Burns ( Chairman ) Steve Davy ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 1062 (2015) |
| sales | 726,933,000 AUD (2010) |
| Branch | energy |
| Website | www.hydro.com.au |
Hydro Tasmania (formerly HEC , short for Hydro-Electric Corporation ) is a public company owned by the Australian state of Tasmania and its main supplier of electricity . Due to the mountainous topography and the precipitation-rich climate in central and western Tasmania, the company specializes in generating energy from hydropower .
Hydro Tasmania currently operates 27 hydroelectric plants, one thermal power plant and two oil-fired power plants . It also has a wind farm and a solar power plant on King Island .
history
In 1914, the Tasmanian government established a Hydro-Electric Department to complete the first hydroelectric power station, the Waddamana Hydro-Electric power station . The Ministry also took over two private hydropower plants in Launceston and Lake Margaret and in 1929 renamed itself the Hydro-Electric Commission ( HEC ).
After the end of World War II , many immigrants came to Tasmania and as a result new power plants were built, mainly in the Central Highlands . When the number of potential locations for new power plants ran out there, one gradually began to develop the west of the island. During this period, reservoirs such as Lake Gordon and Lake Pedder were built.
However, in the early 1980s this process stalled; Because of protest movements within the population against the construction of new reservoirs, which denounced the loss of valuable natural areas, for example the Franklin Dam could not be built.
On July 1, 1998, as part of the deregulation of the Australian electricity market, the individual divisions of HEC were divided into three companies:
- Hydro Tasmania : Power Plant Operation and Power Generation
- Transend Networks : Energy Transfer
- Aurora Energy : Distribution to end customers
In May 2005, Tasmania joined the National Electricity Market , the Australian power exchange .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our Board on the Hydro Tasmania website, accessed December 25, 2018. (English)
- ↑ Hydro Tasmania: hydro.com.au ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF).
- ↑ hydro.com.au ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF).
