ISSUE 45 WINTER 2019 ALL SYSTEMS ARE G ! Introducing Future Generation Guthega Station gets an upgrade Celebrating 70 years of Snowy Out and about in the community INSIDE CEO UPDATE 3 CEO UPDATE CEO Paul Broad gives an update on our key 4 SNOWY 2.0: PROJECT UPDATE achievements at Snowy Hydro in the last few months. 6 INTRODUCING FUTURE GENERATION JOINT VENTURE AND VOITH HYDRO 8 SNOWY 2.0: FEEDBACK SURVEY elcome to the 45th edition In April, we appointed the Future Generation of Snowy Hydro NEWS, Joint Venture as principal contractor to 9 DISCOVER THE SNOWY SCHEME which features a fresh new construct Snowy 2.0. Increasingly you will see 10 GUTHEGA CONTINUES TO MAKE HISTORY look and the latest news and Future Generation staff around the region and information about Snowy there is an introductory story about them in this 12 OUR PROUD HISTORY WHydro, especially for the Snowy Mountains newsletter. community. 13 70 YEARS OF SNOWY Later this month, the Snowy team will once It has been 70 years since the first blast marked again be hosting Snowy 2.0 community 14 PART OF THE COMMUNITY the start of the Snowy Scheme. Since then, information sessions across Snowy Mountains investment in and maintenance of our assets towns. We look forward to seeing you there has ensured we can help keep the lights on with the first session on June 25. across the National Electricity Market. On the retail front, Red Energy’s award- Renewal and upgrade works are ongoing on winning service and commitment to delivering the Scheme, with the current works including a additional value for customers is highlighted by major operation at our inaugural power station, passing the one-year mark with our Red Energy Guthega, to replace the generator in Unit 1 after Qantas Frequent Flyer offer. This partnership 64 years of reliable service. with another iconic Australian company, Qantas, sees Red customers earning Qantas As we come into winter, our weather team is Frequent Flyer points with their existing Red busy analysing the inflow forecasts. While our Energy account. fingers are crossed for a bumper ski season, the outlook is dry. This is consistent with the Finally, with winter here, I’d ask everyone to state’s drought conditions so we’re planning for please be mindful of the unpredictable and a year of low water inflows. As we have done sometimes severe weather conditions that can for many decades we will successfully and occur at this time of year. If you’re driving in the carefully manage our water resources to ensure region please take extra care on the roads. we can generate at times of peak and of course continue to meet our water release obligations for downstream water users and environmental flows. Once again this year our cloud seeding operations are underway to maximise snow falls when the significant cold fronts move through the mountains. On to Snowy 2.0, it’s very exciting and satisfying to be on-site and carrying out work. While Exploratory Works activities are happening up at Lobs Hole we continue work on the Main Works Environmental Impact Statement. We are in discussions with the banks to fund the project and continue to advocate for much- For more information please visit our website needed upgrades to the shared transmission snowyhydro.com.au or follow us on Facebook. network which Snowy 2.0 and many other Contact us: renewable energy projects will need as they 1800 623 776 come online. [email protected] 2 3 SNOWY 2.0: PROJECT UPDATE It’s all systems go with Snowy 2.0. We have formally appointed our principal contractors for the civil and electrical and mechanical works - Future Generation and Voith Hydro. Lobs Hole Ravine Road drainage work he roads component The portal will be the entrance to exhaustive due diligence was Come along to Snowy 2.0 plus plenty of opportunities to We’re keen to hear your views of Exploratory Works the exploratory tunnel, which will undertaken to ensure their information sessions hear the latest Snowy 2.0 news about Snowy 2.0, discuss any local is in progress, after be excavated using the drill and safety systems, processes and learn more about business, concerns that you may have and Snowy Hydro is hosting another completion of a range blast method to the likely site of and performance were of the training and work opportunities. answer your questions. round of community consultation of pre-construction the underground power station. highest standard. sessions in towns across the You can also meet representatives There is also a Snowy 2.0 survey Tactivities such as boundary- This important work must be These reviews are to ensure the mountains from 25 June to 1 July, from Future Generation, who are you can complete on page 8 of marking and fencing of heritage completed to ensure the power safety and quality performance is to keep people updated about directly responsible for Snowy 2.0 this newsletter, or on our website: and environmentally-sensitive station cavern – which will house of the highest calibre throughout progress on Snowy 2.0. procurement, sub-contracts and snowyhydro.com.au areas at Lobs Hole. the 240m-long machine hall and the the construction of Snowy 2.0. workforce employment. There are ‘drop-in’ sessions and Archeologists have been 200m-long transformer hall about As owner of the project, we will formal presentations with Q&As, identifying, recording and salvaging 800m underground – is situated in a be pursuing this ongoing program a small number of heritage items location suitable for the geological of reviews, audits and on-site known to be where buildings at stress conditions at depth. DATE TOWN VENUE TIME inspections so that exceptionally Lobs Hole once stood, so work can We are also carrying out high safety standards are maintained. Centennial Park, Sharp St 10:00 am - commence in that area. Tue 25 June Cooma essential safety reviews with Drop in and chat 12:00 pm Roads contractor Leed our contractors. Before their Adaminaby Bowling Club 6:00 pm - Engineering and Construction is appointment to Snowy 2.0, Tue 25 June Adaminaby Presentation and Q&A from 6pm 8:00 pm upgrading sections of existing roads and tracks and establishing Nest cafe and cinema, Winton St 6:00 pm - Wed 26 June Tumbarumba 2km of new road so that there is Presentation and Q&A from 6pm 8:00 pm safe and reliable access into the Outside the Snowy Hydro display, Talbingo shops 11:00 am - Thu 27 June Talbingo construction site. Drop in and chat 12:00 pm Leed has more than 70 personnel Tumut Bowling Club, Richmond St 6:00 pm - Thu 27 June Tumut on-site carrying out works including Presentation and Q&A from 6pm 8.30 pm establishment of stormwater Wynyard Park, next to Pie in the Sky 9:00 am - drainage and installation of erosion Fri 28 June Tumut Drop in and chat 11:00 am and sediment controls to protect the Yarrangobilly River and Cooma Ex-Services Club, Vale St 6:00 pm - Mon 1 July Cooma catchment areas. Presentation and Q&A from 6pm 8.30 pm Other elements of Exploratory Works to get underway in coming Lobs Hole Ravine Road and the Lobs Hole camping area in Kosciuszko National months include establishment of REMINDER: Park are closed to the public for safety reasons during construction of Snowy 2.0. People should a workers’ accommodation camp exercise caution when driving in the Snowy Mountains, as an increase in vehicle movements in and a construction compound with the area is expected, particularly along the Snowy Mountains Highway and Link Road. a portal construction pad. Monique, a Leed worker on-site 4 5 INTRODUCING uture Generation has been created Lane, which has operated in the US since 1890, specifically for Snowy 2.0 and brings has been part of the Salini Impregilo family since together the combined engineering 2016. The company is a leader in diversified expertise and experience of three heavy civil construction and together with Salini FUTURE companies: Australian-based Clough, Impregilo, has built 257 dams and hydroelectric FItaly’s Salini Impregilo and US-based Lane plants in five different continents, with an Construction. installed capacity of more than 37,500MW. The Future Generation team’s mission is to GENERATION safely engineer, plan and deliver the Snowy 2.0 Voith Hydro project to enhance and benefit the Australian A world leader in hydropower engineering and community, and to create a positive and equipment supply, Voith Hydro will deliver sustainable legacy for future generations the latest hydro-generation technology in JOINT VENTURE while protecting the unique Snowy region the Snowy 2.0 power station, including its six environment. pump-turbines. Part of the Voith Group, the company supplies Salini Impregilo and Clough AND VOITH and services all major components for large Salini Impregilo was founded in Italy in 1906 and small hydro plants, from generators, and has grown to become the world’s most turbines, pumps and automation systems, experienced tunnelling contractor and through to spare parts, maintenance and HYDRO an international leader in hydro and dam training services, and digital solutions for infrastructure projects. With 30 tunnel boring intelligent hydropower. machines currently working underground, The Voith Group is a global technology Salini Impregilo has 450km of tunnelling company working in the energy, oil and projects under construction, adopting gas, paper, raw materials and transport and tunnelling methodologies to suit varying local automotive industries. Founded in 1867, Voith conditions and working in environments as is family-owned and has more than 19,000 diverse as inner cities to remote alpine regions.