R&D at Hydro Tasmania is focused on strategic priorities: product innovation, solving operational and resource problems and new renewable energy technologies.
Hydro Tasmania’s R&D contributes to strong links with universities and research institutions through:
- partnerships and alliances
- collaborative research
- research contracts and consulting
- undergraduate sponsorship
- postgraduate projects.
Some recent R&D includes:
- investigating the application of new renewable energy technologies such as ocean and solar power
- increasing the performance of our water conveyance assets
- using hydrogen as an energy storage medium in remote areas
- integrating renewable energy into the transport sector
- studying the biology and ecology of threatened fish in Great Lake and Arthurs Lake.