Found inside – Page 5River As work proceeds , generating plant Ficoria , bet to a total capacity of approximately 3,750,000 kilowatts will be ... the actual amount of power produced under the Snowy Mountains Scheme will be powe ! equal to the power produced from ... within about seven years revenue would be enough to meet interest and amortization money raised for capital works . ... of personnel is concerned ; mountains , and the provision of acbut not so much proportionately in commodation for some ... Found inside – Page 74THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS SCHEME TUMUT 4000 SNOWY MOUNTAINS CANBERRA 20:00 SCHEME BLOWERING BLOWERING RESERVOIR ... Proposals for development of the Snowy River date back to 1884 but it was not until 1949 that the Snowy Mountains Hydro - electric Power Act was passed . ... The Scheme is producing and will continue to produce peak load electricity at competitive prices . Found inside – Page 69UTILIZATION OF POWER RESOURCES HYDRO - ELECTRIC POWER - SNOWY MOUNTAINS SCHEME COAL P RACTICALLY all Australia's ... Thermal plants utilizing coal generate about ten times the amount of electricty produced by water turbines . ... 54 ) will have an installed capacity of 136,000 k.w. ( replacing the much smaller power station of the previous installation ) while on the Rubicon , a ... Found inside – Page 35HYDROELECTRIC POWER Ivor Pinkerton : an extraordinary engineer His signature work is one of the seven engineering ... world leader in dam design , and was tapped to design the Eucumbene Dam , the centrepiece of the Snowy Mountains scheme . ... Still , the Snowy Mountain hierarchy was again favouring the American bureau for the new project . ... east coast to a dry inland area , where irrigation would support agriculture and the water produce hydroelectricity on its journey . Found inside – Page 144An Act of Parliament started the Snowy Mountains Scheme in 1949 . ... Farm produce is to rise $ 60 million a year in value as a result . ... The scheme requires sixteen large dams and many smaller ones , seven power stations ... Once it would have coursed down the mountains and ultimately to the southern ocean near Adelaide ; now , still high in the mountains , a dam diverts it and shoots it eleven and a ... Found inside – Page 256A We have to produce more food and more clothes , build more houses , schools , hospitals and other buildings and supply ... This does not take into account the power potential of the gigantic Snowy Mountains hydroelectric project , which alone ... The £ 260,000,000 Snowy River scheme is the greatest of Australia's development stimulators — a dual purpose water ... of them to supply the power needs of its people , yet only about 8 per cent . of its resources have so far been tapped . Found inside – Page 177The Snowy Mountains scheme of South - eastern Australia is designed both for power and irrigation . Though the area concerned is far smaller than that in which the Tennessee Valley Authority operates , it has been planned on a similar ... The United Kingdom cannot produce hydro - electric power on such a vast scale . Found inside – Page 758CANADA Plant Modernisation A $2 million project to modernise the Quebec Power Co. ... If investigations prove the existence of adequate hydro-electric potential, the Commission intends to proceed with a scheme which would be able to ... Found inside – Page 13The range is a tableland of plateau remnants similar to many Central Otago blocks . It is dissected ... It calls for the Snowy River , which flows eastward to the Tasman , to be diverted westward to the Murray and Murrumbidgee so that their irrigation potentialities as well as their hydroelectric power can be developed . Costing 450 million pounds , the scheme is expected to produce three million kilowatts and also make available three million acrefeet of water for irrigation . Amongst the ... Found inside – Page 65At this stage no-one envisaged just how popular winter sports would become, but from the early 1950s rapid ... The main focus of the Scheme, which produced its first power in 1955, was in the central Snowy Mountains on either side of the ... Found insideHydro energy is the use of water flows to drive turbines to generate ... Australia has 14 hydro power stations of which the Snowy Mountain Scheme is by far ... Found inside – Page 4the end of the year, the first power will be drawn from the Snowy Mountains hydroelectric and irrigation scheme now taking shape in the Australian Alps. This is Australia's greatest development project: indeed, it is greater in many respects than the celebrated Tennessee Valley Authority's scheme. It will produce more electricity than T.V.A., and more than all the thermal power stations in Australia. Found insideThe policy wasn't limited to solar power either; it aimed to encourage ... largely from hydroelectricity in Tasmania and the Snowy Mountain Scheme. Found inside – Page 264The Snowy Mountains Scheme came about when Canberra was chosen for the new ... the power and water problems: the water could be used to produce electricity ... Found inside – Page 1129Under the schedule set out above, power will become available as follows ... Snowy -Murray section of tin Scheme will proceed actively during the next ... Found inside – Page 89Such a grid is expected to produce a saving of 3500MW of capacity by reducing the reserves needed for peaking It was also announced that 200GW of new capacity would be commissioned during the next 20 years , including 20 hydroelectric ... A separate report has been published by the Authority's off - shoot , the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation , see ... Furnas Centrais Elétricas , Brazil , for eight 190MVA machines for the Marimbondo power scheme on the Rio Grande . Found inside – Page 62This would in terms of 1952 currency be equivalent to Rs . 210 and including repairs , the final cost comes to Rs . 350 ... The Snowy Mountain Scheme . ... of the diverted waters as they pass through the tunnels and shafts will be utilized for producing huge quantities of power . ... The first power station is already in operation . Found inside – Page 135The Snowy scheme was an imaginative and expensive piece of engineering which ... and both of these states would also benefit from the generation of hydro ... Found insideThe Snowy Mountains scheme is one of the largest engineering works ever undertaken in the world . ... The excess cost of replacing this hydro - electric power by power produced by an existing thermal station operating at that level is at least a halfpenny per kWh . This would amount to £ 12,500,000 per annum , but the actual figure would , of course , be much greater as no such thermal station exists . Found insideSNOWY. MOUNTAIN. SCHEME. The original 1948 Holden design which cost $1 466 at ... produced the Holden car in 1948, its greatest achievement was the Snowy ... Found inside – Page 291They will carry eastern waters from the Snowy and Murrumbidgee rivers , and so produce power in 14 stations on the lower levels of ... This Snowy Mountain Project is paralleled by the scheme of the Aluminium Company in British Columbia . Found inside – Page 11The Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme is one of the most complex integrated ... nation and to build power stations to generate renewable electricity for ... Found inside – Page 15THE HE Snowy Mountains Scheme , a major dual - purpose water conservation project for the production of peak load electricity ... History The history of the Scheme goes back as far as the early 1880's when proposals were put forward for the inland ... scheme for supplying both large amounts of hydro - electric power for industry and water for irrigation was possible . ... about £ A25m . The Scheme is producing and will continue to produce peak load electricity at competitive prices . Found inside – Page 1342,300,000 , power producing projects for £ 2,600.000 and Melbourne , for Australia's domestic routes followed surveys ... Mr. John L. Watkins , said receous works scheme , the largest ever undertaken in the Mr. Watkins recommended the ... tests so far dams in the world . justify an orderly programme of exploration , but it is Actual construction of the Snowy Mountains ... This will mean about 0.5 kW per head of than in 1951-52 , while imports would be only little population - just twice the ... Found inside – Page 198Centennial Park, Cooma, NSW The nearby Snowy Mountains are the only snow ... to produce clean electrical power which would be distributed over much of ... Found inside – Page 3363150 Wind energy : a supplement to hydro - electric energy using the Columbia ... of producing six times more electricity than the Snowy Mountain Scheme ... Found inside – Page 1518I at such a great height , the same water have no doubt that , as the scheme pro- may be used many times . ... snow in the mountain areas streams , we shall have a greater installed acts as a natural storage space for many output of ... The possible for the power produced in the estimated output of kilowatt hours from area to be go cheap and attractive . the Snowy is ... The potential output of this watt would produce 3,942 kilowatt hours great scheme represents in coal 4,000,000 a year . Found inside – Page 742 power - house of the Aluminium Company of Canada's plant at Shipshaw , one of two great hydro - electric schemes in Quebec . ... By far the biggest hydro resources are in the South Island , where the huge Roxburgh Station on the Clutha River began ... Although Australia has one of the most spectacular hydro undertakings in her Snowy Mountains scheme ( it will be producing 410,000 kW by 1961-62 ... Found inside – Page 25At each stopping place , is to reverse the flow of the Snowy River , making it flow the passengers in the tail of the convoy emerged from their west into the Murray ... To achieve this objective , the see much of what he described in the finished Scheme . ... Guthega , one of the power dale Agricultural Conference , described it to the Conferstations , was nearing completion , and will produce 60,000 ence . Found inside – Page 490Power Station T.5 . at the foot of the dam will operate with a head of about 160 ft and will discharge to a regulating pond formed ... The whole Scheme will involve the construction of seven major dams and at least seven smaller dams ; more than 80 miles of large diameter tunnels ; 17 power stations , many of them deep underground ; over 300 miles of channels ... Compared with some ranges the Snowy Mountains are not high ; but their maze of ridges , granite cliffs and steep western ... Found inside – Page 121Ultimately, the Snowy Water Inquiry became only the initial step in the process of ... The Gordon River Hydro-electric Power Scheme, Tasmania Undoubtedly, ... Found inside – Page 780The article continues-of a young nation tackling the great problem The great Show Mountains scheme -- costing of ... up lyrics . in their power , having sought it for so long Senator Ilenty : -I did not say that it will aild having had it for so long . ... will appreciate the potential of the Snowy Mountains Authority . pated that the Authority would be disbanded because it would ... Today it cannot produce Led by Denham Henty down the mountain side , one definite scheme of development to The ... Found inside – Page 158Much will depend on the speed with which we collect labor , machinery , and materials . ... The Act set in motion a great project — the diversion and drainage of the Snowy River to produce power for defence ( atomic energy ) and power and irrigation for southeastern Austria . ... From the Snowy - Murray diversion scheme , the Murray will receive a net gain of about 400,000 acre feet of water a year . Found insideOther countries such as Australia (through its Snowy Mountain Scheme), the western United States and Western Europe have already developed much of the ... Found inside – Page 125An electric power generating device is described that recovers the energy of the ... of producing six times more electricity than the Snowy Mountain Scheme ... Found inside – Page 144An Act of Parliament started the Snowy Mountains Scheme in 1949 . ... The project will produce 3,770,000 kilowatts , more than any existing plant except Russia's Bratsk , although , of course , the Snowy Mountains ... Yet hydroelectric power , to be sold for $ 50 million a year , is only half the purpose . ... The scheme requires sixteen large dams and many smaller ... Once it would have coursed down the mountains and ultimately to the southern ocean near Adelaide ; now , still high in ... Found inside – Page 391In addition, dams are also used to produce energy from which governments and ... Australia's Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme of dams is a classic ... Found inside – Page 74THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS SCHEME STUMUT 4000 SNOWY MOUNTAINS CANBERRA 2000 ' SCHEME BLDSERING BLOWERING. In south ... Proposals for development of the Snowy River date back to 1884 but it was not until 1949 that the Snowy Mountains Hydro - electric Power Act was passed . ... The Scheme is producing and will continue to produce peak load electricity at competitive prices . Found inside – Page 208The Snowy Mountains had lived up to their reputation , with heavy falls ... water that would then power seven hydro stations ; much of the system was ... Found inside – Page 85The total reserves, so far as they are known are, however, substantially less than those of the United States, which has ... to raise steam for power generation, and is also briquetted and dried to produce domestic and industrial solid fuel. ... and Victoria each have inter-connected power grids which are joined together via the Snowy Mountains HydroElectric system. ... On the mainland the largest scheme, which is now well on toward completion, is that located in the Australian Alps in ... Found inside – Page 86MUNMORAH POWER STATION ELECTRICITY COMMISSION OF N.S.W. ANALOG CONTROLS AND DIGITAL DATA ... and the high speed printer will produce a printed English identification of the particular trouble spot together with the actual ... in suitable tabular form and with English identification , of associated information which would relate to the trouble area . ... load power which will be complemented by the development of peaking capacity in the Snowy Mountain's Scheme . Found inside – Page 150Australia : The Snowy Mountains Hydro - Electric In spite of larger installed ... The total power produced in USA is extent of one million ha has been ... Found inside – Page 6INTRODUCTION THE Snowy Mountains Scheme , the largest engineering project ever undertaken in ( a ) to produce Hydro - electric power to meet increasing demands for industrial expansion , and ( b ) to provide Irrigation water for the dry ... Found inside – Page 201... of the original grassland and woodland vegetation in the drier parts of the Highlands the pastoralists opened up much of the region ... The milk is used to supply local needs but some butter and cheese are produced . ... The Snowy Mountains Scheme . Of major significance in the field of water conservation and irrigation is the diversion of the coastal Snowy River and its ... the tunnels under the divide , the diverted waters will fall some 2,600 feet , generating large quantities of power . Found inside – Page 179Because the power to be produced will be readily salable , the farmers will get their supplemental irrigating water free of charge . ... To equal the output of electricity when all the stations are in service , it would be necessary to burn 4 million tons of coal per year . ... The Snowy Mountains Scheme , in one form or another , has been talked about . since 1884. ... a much bigger scale with respect to harnessed to turbines and thus made to the volume of water diverted , the produce enough ... Found inside – Page 1647Notwithstanding what the effect , for many of the smaller pronorable member for Lyne ( Mr. Eggins ) ducers an advance ... available a certain proportion member tried to establish that the wool of those engaged in their manufacture tax is not in fact a tax . ... When ar to al industries the power supI was a civil servant I was subject to pots required for expansion . ... a deduction ar tribute to the previous Government made from this year's income as it is being : ur its Snowy Mountain scheme . Found inside – Page 23The scheme involves also the construction of 17 power stations , many of them deep underground ; 85 miles of large diameter tunnels ... world , is now taking shape in the Australian Alps . This is the gigantic Snowy Mountains HydroElectric Scheme , a combined electricity and ... It is estimated that the project , when completed , will produce 3,000,000 kW of electrical power — greater than the present total ... Found inside – Page 1868The sale of power generated by the Snowy scheme , certainly in New South the scheme will meet the cost of storing Wales , and , I believe , in other parts ... where the Murrumbidgee River was through the area on several occasions since . being used for irrigation purposes . ... we would see Range , through country that has a very immense areas of land suitable to produce heavy rainfall , into the Tasman ... Found inside – Page 6The Snowy - Tumut Development provides for the diversion of the Eucumbene River to the upper reaches of the Tumut River . To produce more electricity and also to achieve the desired division of irrigation water between the Murray and Murrumbidgee Valleys , the ... 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