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• Entura's Bunfu Yu wins at 2020 National Awards for Planning Excellence

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  Bunfu Yu, one of Entura's planning consultants, has won the Outstanding Student Project award at the 2020 National Awards for Planning Excellence

• Entura rediscovers snail species thought likely to be extinct at Tasmania’s Great Lake

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  Entura’s environment team have rediscovered a species of freshwater snail thought likely to be extinct during a survey at Tasmania’s…

• Entura visits Antarctica’s Scott Base research facility for redevelopment works

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  Entura recently visited New Zealand’s remote Scott Base research facility in Antarctica as part of site investigations for the hub’s…

• Entura expanding with exciting leadership opportunities

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  Entura is growing, and with that comes a number of exciting new leadership opportunities for senior technical specialists. With significant…

• Insights from EA Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2024

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  With over 370 hydrology and water experts from around the country and overseas descending on Melbourne for the Engineers Australia…

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• Technical leadership team

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  Donald Vaughan, Technical Director Grid and Power, and Richard Herweynen, Technical Director Water, are part of the Technical Leadership team. You…

• Executive team

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       Dr Amanda Ashworth,Acting Managing Director Dr Amanda Ashworth has been with the business for 23 years and has held…

• Entura's Privacy Policy

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  The Hydro-Electric Corporation (ABN 48 072 377 158) trading as Hydro Tasmania and/or Entura (Hydro Tasmania) is committed to protecting your…

• Entura Podcast

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  Welcome to 'Behind the Scenes,' the podcast where we delve into the diverse perspectives and backgrounds of the brilliant minds…

• Climate resilience in practice

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  Climate change poses new uncertainties and risks to power and water asset developers, operators and financiers, in addition to the challenges already facing these sectors. Higher temperatures, changes in water availability and rainfall, more frequent and severe weather events, and natural disasters may pose threats to...

• Safer hydropower stations for safer workers

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  Hydropower stations can pose significant safety risks to those who work in them, but there is no excuse for injury or death in our workplaces...

• Can commercial solar and storage reduce risk in an evolving electricity grid?

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  How can distribution network service providers best take advantage of the emerging opportunities presented by...

• Are you investing in your most valuable asset?

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  There is banter doing the rounds of social media: One person asks, ‘What if we develop our people and they leave?’ The retort that quickly follows is, ‘What if we don’t develop our people and they stay?’

• How can businesses get more value from their investment in solar and storage?

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  What do you need to know to minimise your risk and maximise the value of your commercial-scale solar and storage system?

• Six essentials for solar farm design

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  Is designing a solar farm child’s play… a simple matter of snapping some Lego together? Not if you’re after maximum efficiency, operability and value...

• Building climate resilience into operations: Hydro Tasmania’s journey

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  Climate change presents major risks for power and water businesses. To best prepare for the impacts of extreme or changing weather conditions, asset managers need to act now to build climate resilience into operations and ongoing risk management...

• The foundations of successful large-scale solar farms

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  On any large-scale renewable energy project, every opportunity to reduce costs counts...

• Can big data and artificial intelligence transform the wind sector?

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  Big data and advances in artificial intelligence hold extraordinary potential for transforming the energy sector. But is change in the wind sector likely to be transformational, or can we expect only incremental performance improvement?

• Dispatchable renewables: a contradiction in terms?

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  As Australia replaces retiring coal generation with renewables, can we achieve an energy future that is affordable and sustainable as well as reliable?

• Early action is the best approach for operational environmental management

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  Building, maintaining and operating power and water assets involves a level of environmental risk. If you can identify and manage these risks early, your projects or operations are far less likely to run into trouble down the track...

• Are batteries the best way to go?

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  Renewables are now the cheapest form of new energy generation, but to make variable renewables ‘dispatchable’, we need to add storage...

• Green hydrogen: big buzz or good business?

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  Everyone in the energy industry is talking about green hydrogen, and the buzz just keeps on growing.  It’s been clearly…

• Keeping close tabs on your dams

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  Access to quality long-term records is crucial for dam safety. Read what our specialists have to say about keeping your…

• What role does hydropower play in the race to net zero?

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  https://youtu.be/4QCJAmw9gU0 Dr Amanda Ashworth, Entura's Director of Strategy, Sales and Commercial, discusses the role that hydropower plays in the race…

• What is the best way to model complex water structures?

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  Understanding the behaviour of water as it flows in natural and constructed environments is fundamental to designing and managing many…

• Who will develop and build our clean energy future – and what will it cost?

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  I have just ‘returned’ from the World Wind Energy Conference 2023, held just down the road from Entura’s Hobart office.…

• India and Australia can support each other’s clean energy journeys

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  The relationship between India and Australia goes far beyond our nations’ mutual love of cricket. We have deep people-to-people connections…

• Powering a greener mining future with hybrid renewables

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  This article reflects on a panel discussion chaired by Ray Massie at the Energy and Mines Australia Summit 2023, which…

• Changing the climate future 

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  The future isn’t what it used to be. The future we now expect is one of even more intense rainfall.…

• From binoculars and boots to bytes and bots: harnessing remote sensing and AI for ecological monitoring

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  For power and water developments to be truly sustainable, we must preserve and protect biodiversity. But it can be difficult…

• ‘Dams for People, Water, Environment and Development’ – some reflections from ICOLD 2024

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  Entura’s Amanda Ashworth (Managing Director) and Richard Herweynen (Technical Director, Water) recently attended the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) 2024…

• Thursday Island – wind farm feasibility study

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  Client: Ergon Energy Location: Queensland, Australia Date: February 2012 – May 2013 Exploring the feasibility of a wind farm to…

• Climate Futures for Tasmania

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  Client: Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre Location: Tasmania, Australia Date: January 2007 – December 2010 Analysing and interpreting…

• Ross Island Wind Energy Network

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  Client: Antarctica New Zealand  Location: Ross Island, Antarctica  Date: January - December 2022 Feasibility, option studies and preliminary design for the redevelopment…

• Burnie City Council flood management support

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  Client: Burnie City Council Location: Tasmania / Australia Date: 2018 - 2024 Building resilience and alleviating flood risks for a…