Energy Insiders Podcast: The case for pumped hydro

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Tasmania sources more than 80 per cent of its electricity from hydroelectricity.

Energy Insiders Podcast

Nov 25, 2021

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Ben Bolot from ATCO on the role pumped hydro storage could play in a renewables dominated grid in Australia.

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