The State of Tasmania is now attempting to diversify its over reliance on power from hydroelectricity, specially considering the low storage capacity of the overall Hydro system.

In the 1980s, the Franklin River become synonymous with Australia's largest conservation battle of the time, the movement to save the Franklin from the Hydro Tasmania proposed hydro-electric power scheme.

Other achievements included huge increases in tourist numbers, leading social policies, partnerships between state and local governments, turning Tasmanian Government entities, such as Hydro Tasmania, into profit-generating businesses ( one of the election-winning strategies was to propose this as opposed to selling them ), bringing two AFL clubs to play regular home and away matches in Tasmania ( Hawthorn Football Club and St Kilda Football Club ) and improving the general feeling of confidence in individuals and businesses within the state of Tasmania.

Lake Pedder was once a natural lake, located in the southwest of Tasmania, Australia but the name is now used in an official sense to refer to the much larger artificial impoundment and diversion lake formed when the original lake was expanded by damming in 1972 by the Hydro Electric Commission of Tasmania.

* Hydro Tasmania

* 1998: Legislation passed to separate Hydro-Electric Commission into three bodies: Aurora Energy, Transend Networks and Hydro Tasmania.

It is a safe harbour for passing yachts and the site of the Huxley Hill Wind Farm operated by Hydro Tasmania.

* Hydro Electric Commission of Tasmania

It was not until after the Franklin Dam issue of the 1980s that Hydro Tasmania proceeded to dam the valley.

* Hydro Tasmania

Hydro Tasmania, known for most of its history as The HEC, is the government owned enterprise which is the predominant electricity generator in the state of Tasmania, Australia.

Today Hydro Tasmania operates 27 hydro-electric, one thermal and two diesel power stations.

The people who had been employees of the HEC in the 1940s to the 1980s were an important part of the population of Tasmania, and the heritage and oral history issues of the institution have been acknowledged by the recent management of Hydro Tasmania in employing people to make a reasonable record of that era, and earlier.

Hydro Tasmania was formed on the disaggregation of the Hydro-Electric Commission on July 1, 1998.

This resulted in the division of the formerly government owned department into three companies — Hydro Tasmania which generates the power, Transend Networks which transmits it across the state, and Aurora Energy, the retail arm, which sells and distributes it to customers.

Hydro Tasmania is presently ( March 2010 ) a government owned enterprise.

Some evidence of this first arose in late 2003 when Labor allowed Hydro Tasmania to sell its subsidiary software business, Hydstra, to a German competitor and again in 2005 when they allowed the sale of part of its financial interests in Wind Farm company, Roaring 40s to a Chinese company CLP Power Asia.

The Hydro of the first decade of the 21st century saw the loss of the old dam building generation, to an adept at accommodating larger world wide trends — The Anthony Power Development, was considered to be part of the last hydro-electric power development in Tasmania.

Hydro Tasmania publications

** Fenton, Heather ( 2008 ) Ticklebelly tales and other stories from the people of the Hydro, Hobart: Hydro Tasmania.

In December 2006 Statoil revealed a proposal to merge with the oil business of Norsk Hydro, a Norwegian conglomerate.

In late 2005 there was a proposal by the NSW government of Morris Iemma for the federal and state governments to sell their shares in Snowy Hydro Limited.

In December 2006 Norsk Hydro revealed a proposal to merge their oil business with compatriate oil and gas company Statoil.

Leif Tronstad, then a lecturer at the Norwegian Institute of Technology and Jomar Brun, head of the hydrogen plant put forward a proposal in 1933, the year heavy water was first isolated, for a project, which was accepted by Norsk Hydro and production started in 1935.

* The Snowy Hydro scheme in the Australian Snowy Mountains created during its construction.

* April 2003-Meridian extended its operations in Australia with the purchase of Southern Hydro, increasing its Australian generating capacity by 540 MW.

* 30 November 2005-Meridian completed the sale of its Australian operation, Southern Hydro, for A $ 1. 42 billion ( NZ $ 1. 52 billion ) to Australian Gas Light Company.

* Snowy Hydro SouthCare Air Ambulance Service-CHC operates a Bell 412 for emergency helicopter service, based in Symonston, Australian Capital Territory.

* State Hydro Department, became New Zealand Electricity Department, then NZE, then ECNZ

One of the subcontractors was the Forest Service Branch of the Department of Lands and Forests to whom BC Hydro paid $ 5 million to clear the area that would become Willison Lake-an area that was covered in timber to 80 %.

Topham served briefly as a Constable with the Toronto Police Department before moving onto a career with Toronto Hydro.

* Daniel Speich: The Linth Valley Hydro Engineering Scheme ( 1807-1823 ) and the Genesis of Swiss National Unity, Environment and History 8 ( 2002 ) 429-447

Ontario's Environmental Bill of Rights was also approved during his tenure as Minister of Environment and Energy. He was a prominent defender of public ownership of Ontario Hydro and sceptic on nuclear power.

Among the projects under the German cooperation, the Middle-Marsyangdi Hydro Electric Project is a

* 1995 – Texaco merges its Danish and Norwegian downstream operations with those of Norsk Hydro under the new brand HydroTexaco.

BC Hydro was created in 1961 when the government of British Columbia, under Premier WAC Bennett, passed the BC Hydro Act.

The north side of the town is dominated by the Dunblane Hydro Hotel, currently owned by the Hilton Hotel Group and operated under the Doubletree brand.

In 1989, Ontario Hydro published a 4-volume study, up to the year 2014, under the title " Providing the Balance of Power.

The second and more fundamental reversal occurred in late January 2003, when Premier Eves personally announced that Hydro One would remain under public control.

It heads north into geographic Niven Township, then loops back southeast into Clancy Township, under a Hydro One transmission corridor and into geographic Guthrie Township.

The Scheduling and Despatch of the Tehri Hydro Power plant is done by Northern Regional Load Despatch Centre which is the apex body to ensure the integrated operation of the power system grid in the Northern region and comes under Power System Operation Corporation Limited ( POSOCO ).

Midway Games had plans to create a double pack for Hydro Thunder and San Francisco Rush 2049 under the name Hydro Rush for the PlayStation 2, but the game was canceled, with the project moved to Midway Arcade Treasures 3.

Hydro One's distribution system knows how to protect itself under certain conditions.

In December 2001 the provincial government announced the intention to sell Hydro One under an initial public offering, however by April 2002 various groups in opposition to the plan were able to successfully challenge the government in the Ontario Superior Court, forcing a halt to the IPO.

Ontario Hydro won out and took title to the Railway, under the name Ontario Hydro Electric Railways – Guelph District, on May 21, 1921.

Midway Games had plans to create a double pack for Hydro Thunder and San Francisco Rush 2049 under the name Hydro Rush for the PlayStation 2.