Corporate Body

Hydro-electric Power and Metallurgical Company Ltd (c. 1910 - c. 1914)

From
c. 1910
Tasmania, Australia
To
c. 1914
Tasmania, Australia
Functions
Energy and Smelters or Foundries

Summary

Hydro-electric Power and Metallurgical Company Ltd was established to generate hydro-electric power at Waddamana, for its use in a calcium carbide plant at Electrona, and an electrolytic zinc smelting and refining works at Risdon, Tasmania. Due to the inability of the company to raise sufficient funding just before the First World War, the power scheme was taken over by the Hydro Electric Department, established in 1914.

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 c. 1910 - c. 1914 Hydro-electric Power and Metallurgical Company Ltd
       1914 - 1930 Hydro Electric Department
             1930 - 1996 Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania

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