Hydro Tasmania, the State-owned power utility from Australia has confirmed on November 24. 2025 that it looks forward to signing a commercial offtake agreement which is going to offer it with almost 1,500GWh for wind, solar parks in order to meet up the growing energy demand in Tasmania.
It is well to be noted that the company has gone ahead and launched an open tender and is going to accept Expressions of Interest – EOIs till December 5, 2025. As part of such an initiative, the company is going to aim to contract projects that could start feeding the electricity into the Tasmanian grid in the forthcoming five to six years.
Apparently, the objective of the 1,500GWh for wind, solar parks tender is to support novel renewable energy capacity, which can actually work along with the hydropower resources in Tasmania, that will prepare for the forecasted rise within the energy demand after the end of this decade and will also help with the expansion of energy-intensive industries.
According to the executive general manager of commercial Hydro Tasmania, Vedran Kovac, the ideal way to meet the future demand is to have a mix of wind, solar as well as hydropower. He further added that the Marinus Link subsea interconnector project, which is going to link Victoria as well as Tasmania, has gone on to provide the required certainty, and an offtake agreement was indeed the next piece of the puzzle.
It was in 2024 that Hydro Tasmania had agreed to off-take electricity from what is going to be the largest photovoltaic – PV farm in Tasmania, which will be a 288 MW plant that is anticipated to go live in 2027.
