Hampered by challenging expectations from the outset, the team behind this ambitious megaproject – set to power 3 million homes – is finally feeling optimistic.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.A shrine to Saint Barbara, the patron of tunnellers and others who work with explosives, stands at each of the entrances to the 27 kilometres of tunnels for the Snowy 2.0 mega-pumped hydro project in the Snowy Mountains.
Dennis Barnes was appointed chief executive of Snowy Hydro in February last year. He will lead the Commonwealth-owned corporation that is building and will own the project. He does not hide his frustration that the wildly optimistic claims from Turnbull at the project’s launch have cast a pall over it ever since.
Barnes said the project was now 60 per cent complete. He is confident that further major cost and deadline blowouts are not likely. He concedes, though, that the soft ground that unexpectedly bogged Florence could reappear: “There’s still geology that could have us undone.” Dave Evans, Snowy 2.0’s project manager, said the pressure he feels from politicians and electricity grid managers to complete the project on time shows just how crucial the project will be to making Australia’s dream of reliable renewable energy a reality.Evans leads a team of 3000 workers in the remote mountains. They work 14-day shifts with seven days off in between.
Lady Eileen has completed a 3-kilometre access tunnel for workers to build the powerhouse and has 2 kilometres left to go on the 6-kilometre tailrace tunnel.
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