The best and brightest minds in hydropower have visited Australia's largest renewable energy project and explored the clean energy transition, as part of a major industry event hosted by Snowy Hydro.
The Hydro Power Engineering Exchange (HPEE) welcomed more than 110 experts from Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Canada to connect, share knowledge and technical presentations on their operations, maintenance and projects.
Essentially an asset-based engineering forum for technical staff, the biennial event first took place in 1990 as a joint initiative between the Snowy Mountains Authority (now Snowy Hydro), the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand and the Hydro Electric Commission of Tasmania (now Hydro Tasmania) and other Australian hydropower authorities.
This time around, three jam-packed days of conferences took place at QT Canberra from October 19-23 2025 sandwiched between a Snowy 2.0 site tour.
Snowy Hydro event convenor Jan de Groote described the exchange as "steeped in history and tradition" and unparalleled across the world.
"The networking opportunity for hydropower engineers results in an extremely knowledgeable peer network and long lasting engineering relationships between all participants."
Snowy 2.0 Engineering and Quality General Manager Damon Miller said attendees were enthusiastic to see the successor to the Snowy Scheme up close.
"It's always great to catch-up with colleagues to collectively discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with designing and building a new pumped hydropower project," he said.
