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

💥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.