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Entura’s hybrid renewable energy innovations on Bass Strait islands continue to inspire

1 June, 2025

Entura’s hybrid renewables success was recently featured on Energy Matters on Channel 9LIFE, sponsored by Momentum Energy. See the feature here.

The footage, filmed on Flinders Island in Bass Strait, gives a rare inside view of the remote Flinders Island Hybrid Energy Hub on which the island’s 950 locals rely to power their homes and businesses.

The Flinders Island Hybrid Energy Hub was developed and commissioned in 2016 by Hydro Tasmania, after community input and support from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). Entura played a key role in bringing the new hybrid renewable microgrid into being.

The system combines solar panels, wind turbines, battery storage, flywheel technology and diesel turbines, with smart controls that maximise the amount of renewable energy and minimise reliance on diesel generation, while ensuring a reliable, consistent electricity supply. The power system consistently delivers around 60% renewable energy, with the potential to hit 100% when conditions are right.

Development of the Flinders Hybrid Energy Hub follows our ground-breaking success with the King Island Renewable Energy Integration Project, which has enabled King Island’s energy needs to be supplied solely from renewables when conditions allow, a world-leading breakthrough at the multi-megawatt scale.

The King Island and Flinders Island systems are among Australia’s earliest examples of remote high-penetration hybrid renewable energy systems. We’re now applying our Bass Strait experience, multidisciplinary expertise and ongoing innovation to isolated communities including Coober Pedy and Rottnest Island, as well as on a number of Pacific islands and at remote sites. These hybrid systems are providing clean, reliable energy and reducing reliance on diesel fuel – with its high carbon emissions, volatile prices and challenging logistics.

We also remain involved in the evolution of Hydro Tasmania’s renewable energy infrastructure, including on the Bass Strait islands, such as supporting the Huxley Hill wind and solar farms. 

Find out more about our hybrid renewable energy expertise and integration solutions here: