Murray Region Energy Chapter

5,800+ MW

Operating, grid-registered generation capacity

17,800+ MW

Future capacity

38,000+ MWh

Battery storage operating, committed or proposed

HYDROELECTRIC

4,200 MW

The Snowy scheme legacy that built our energy story

SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC

1,626 MW

Nine solar farms delivered in a single decade

PUMPED HYDRO

2,200 MW

Snowy 2.0 – pumped hydro, the region’s next giant

In a national conversation increasingly defined by energy security, the Murray Region is not a bystander — it is infrastructure.

A Powerhouse in Two Acts

The Murray region generates 5.8 gigawatts of electricity today. Our development pipeline would nearly triple that, to almost 18.

For seventy years, the Snowy scheme has anchored our east, delivering 4.2 gigawatts of hydro, built between the 1950s and 1970s, still among the largest generators in the country. That was Act One.

Act Two is bigger, and already underway. It sees nine solar farms delivered in a decade, Snowy 2.0 under construction, and a pipeline of wind, solar and batter proposals stretching from Wentworth in the west to the Snowy Valleys in the east.

Explore it below: toggle the Snowy legacy fleet in and out, step through Operating, Committed and Proposed, and click any marker on the map for a project’s detail. Markers outside the green RDA Murray region boundary are neighbouring projects, show for context and never counted in our totals.