The fourth mega TBM on the Snowy 2.0 project will be named after an aspiring engineer Monica Brimmer, 15 and talented Tumut High School student who scooped top prize in an Indigenous art and storytelling competition organised by Snowy Hydro in partnership with the Stars Foundation and Tumut High School. 

Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen said Snowy 2.0 is a nation-building project and it’s fitting its next tunnel boring machine will carry the name and vision of a young local student and future engineer. 

The winning artwork perfectly encapsulated the project’s role in underpinning Australia’s clean energy future:

• the lightbulb shines bright and displays the power to be generated for the east coast of Australia through Snowy 2.0’s huge 2200MW capacity;
• it also highlights workforce who are almost 1 km deep underground in the Snowy Mountains building one of the world’s biggest power stations.

The TBM will shortly begin its assembly at the Marica work site, located on the Snowy Mountains Highway near Yarrangobilly Caves, ahead of tunnelling starting in late 2025.

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