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The South Australian Pumped Hydro Projects
The only two projects that have actually begun construction are Snowy and Genix. The South Australian pumped hydro systems were all built east, west of the Gulf in the wrong place they had heads of 150 to 200 metres this is really miserable. There's been talk and there's been six reasonably serious pumped hydro projects proposed hoping to tap into various offers of funding from the government but they've come to nothing. All these pumped hydro projects typically tend to be in remote and have a lot of transmission costs associated almost essential just for the pumped hydro alonethat isn't always included in the overall cost.
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