And Snowy 2.0 offers us many lessons that will benefit subsequent pumped hydro projects. I’m not an apologist for Snowy 2.0. I would have preferred it wasn’t built in a national park.

A fresh crisis has hit the beleaguered Snowy 2.0 hydropower project, with part of a tunnel collapsing and boring machine "Florence" once again struggling to progress through difficult geological ...

Snowy Hydro insists that its Snowy 2.0 plans will bring in an 800MW of extra wind and solar, and won’t underpin the future of coal. And, it says, it is “not anti-battery”.

There is no cause for celebration with this birthday. Snowy 2.0, having blown out to $10 billion-plus from the original $2 billion estimate, will be a burden on taxpayers, cost households more in ...

Snowy 2.0 has been a lightning rod for controversy. From cost-blowouts to climate impacts and threats to native fish, experts say there are many reasons why it should be put on hold.