Did you know that nearly 1km beneath the snowy mountains, a MASSIVE power station is being built? 🤔⚡️💧 Check out the massive caverns being dug out to house Snowy 2.0’s hydroelectric power station. The machine hall (aka the space to house the turbines and generators) can fit the Sydney Opera House inside! 🤯 The best part about generating power using water? It’s renewable! We can use this water again and again. Snowy 2.0 will be what’s called a ‘pumped hydro’ system. It means that we use power

Snowy 2.0 is set to deliver 2,200 megawatts of fast-start energy and large-scale storage capability to the network, backed by world-leading engineering. At Lobs Hole in the Snowy Mountains, we're powering ahead with construction of the caverns and tunnels for this pumped hydro mega project. Check out the latest video update to learn more. #snowy2 #projectupdate #engineering #pumpedhydro #construction #tunnelling | Snowy Hydro

Snowy 2.0 is a critically important, pumped-hydro expansion of the Snowy Scheme that will help underpin Australia’s transition to a renewable energy future. Construction progress continues across multiple worksites in the Snowy Mountains. At Tantangara, the project team is currently conducting works to stabilise soft ground and enable tunnel boring machine Florence to restart excavating the headrace tunnel. Check out the February Snowy 2.0 video update to find out more! #renewableenergy #snowy2

💥Tunnel breakthrough!💥 The latest Snowy 2.0 project milestone is the breakthrough blast in the 216 metre-long tunnel connecting the water intake at the upper Tantangara reservoir to the gate shaft! When complete, this tunnel will deliver water to the gate shaft and then the headrace tunnel, all the way to the power station at Lobs Hole. #snowy2 #projectupdate #breakthroughblast #tunnelling #drillandblast | Snowy Hydro

Mega project mapping! Snowy 2.0, our 2,200 megawatt pumped-hydro mega project, is a big build! We need extensive, accurate surveying and geospatial data from above ground and deep underground, where we're excavating about 40 kilometres of tunnels and a huge power station cavern the size of two football fields! Snowy Hydro is working with Australian geospatial information specialist, IntelliSpatial which is utilising world's best practice, high definition 3D models to help us deliver the project.

💥 Having a blast! 💥 The Snowy 2.0 power station will have a generation capacity of 2,200 megawatts and we're excavating one of the largest underground cavern complexes in the world to house the six pumped-hydro units and supporting infrastructure. That means a lot of drill and blast work! The total to be excavated for the main power station caverns is: 🛠️machine hall 310,000m3 🛠️transformer hall 160,000m3 In this video below, see how the blasting process is carried out, from the precise blas