White elephant? Hardly—Snowy 2.0 will last 150 years and work with batteries to push out gas

White elephant? Hardly - Snowy 2.0 will last 150 years and work with batteries to push out gas

Discover how Snowy 2.0's massive energy storage could reshape Australia's electricity system and reduce reliance on coal and gas.

White elephant? Hardly—Snowy 2.0 will last 150 years and work with batteries to push out gas

When Snowy 2.0 is in the news, it's usually about money. The cost of the huge project has gone well beyond the initial A$6 billion estimate and will now cost more than $12 billion.

Big project – but big benefit

White elephant? Hardly, Snowy 2.0 will last 150 years and work with batteries to push out gas, Andrew Blakers, Harry Armstrong-Thawley & Timothy Weber say

Snowy 2.0 will last 150 years and help to push out gas

By Professor Andrew Blakers, Australian National University; Harry Armstrong-Thawley, Australian National University, and Timothy Weber, Australian National University When Snowy 2.0 is in the news, it’s usually about money. The cost of the huge project has gone well beyond the initial A$6 billion estimate and will now cost more than $12 billion. But cost overruns don’t affect the real value of this pumped hydro project. When it comes online—lik…

White elephant? Hardly – Snowy 2.0 will last 150 years and work with batteries to push out gas

When Snowy 2.0 is in the news, it’s usually about money. The cost of the huge project has gone well beyond the initial $6 billion estimate and will now cost more than $12 billion.But cost overruns don’t affect the real value of this pumped hydro project. When it comes online – likely in 2028 – Snowy 2.0 will bring something fundamentally new to the Australian electricity system: energy storage at a scale far beyond anything else. It will have fi…