Here’s how ChatGPT and myself sees the Man from Snowy Hydro 2.0 after today’s announcement of further delays and cost blowouts in the pumped hydro project.
The project is not now complete before 2030 (if we are lucky), five years late, and long after it was supposed to be firming renewable power for the eastern grid.
The Man from Snowy Hydro 2.0 is chairman David Knox. The same Mr Knox who played such a crucial role in the creation of the east coast LNG cartel that wrecked the alternative plan of using gas as the bridging fuel as we decarbonised the grid.
