AusHydro is accelerating the transition to renewables.
Partnerships
Your trusted partner in hydropower engineering. Our team of specialists has extensive experience in designing and leading conventional and pumped hydro projects.
At AusHydro, we combine technology and industry best practice to deliver quality and on-time deliverables to our clients. We take pride in our thought leadership and innovative approaches to complex engineering issues.
Services
Design Delivery
AusHydro is a trusted provider of front-end engineering design services for run-of-river, conventional hydro, and pumped storage projects. Our experienced team is dynamic and capable of delivering a wide range of projects, from prospecting to feasibility and reference design.
We focus on delivering high-calibre studies, including options assessments, concept development, feasibility studies, and reference designs.
AusHydro specialises in optimization of hydropower projects to capture maximum value, factoring in layout, capacity, operating rules, and construction methods.
We undertake CFD modelling and transient assessment for both conventional and pumped hydro projects.
Owner’s Engineering
At AusHydro, we provide owner’s engineering services to help our clients successfully deliver their projects. We work closely with our clients to understand their requirements and tailor our services to help them make informed decisions.
AusHydro provides impartial, specialist advice to help owners navigate technical challenges inherent in hydropower.
We assist in creating tender documentation, owners' requirements, specifications, and reviewing tender documents.
We undertake due diligence assessment of projects, business cases, water licences, concessions, permits, power purchase agreements, tolling agreements, etc.
Prospecting
AusHydro is a leader in hydropower and pumped hydro prospecting, with vast global experience in identifying cost-effective, constructable sites. Prospecting allows a large geographic area to be assessed, resulting in a ranked list of prospects to help developers identify attractive sites.
AusHydro's Hydropower Prospektor, a computer model, identifies and ranks run of river, conventional and pumped hydro opportunities to determine optimal sites for potential development.
Our tool integrates topographic, hydrologic, civil, mechanical, hydraulic and GIS layers, ensuring credible results. It's regularly updated and cross-checked with real-world data.
Hydropower Prospector has been successfully implemented in NZ, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, Fiji and Samoa.
Team Experience
Key Projects
Borumba Pumped Hydro (Qld Hydro, QLD)
2,000 MW
Pioneer-Burdekin Pumped Hydro (Qld Hydro, QLD)
5,000 MW
Oven Mountain Pumped Hydro (OMPS, NSW)
900 MW
Project Experience
Snowy 2.0 Pumped Hydro (Snowy Hydro, NSW)
2,000 MW
Bells Mountain Pumped Hydro (AGL, NSW)
250 MW
Grande Inga Hydropower Project (DRC Congo)
70 GW
About Us
Leaders in innovative design, with forward thinking approaches
Jeremy Kent-Johnston established AusHydro in 2022 with the goal of accelerating the transition to a renewable future. With AusHydro, Jeremy leverages an experienced team of subject matter experts to deliver innovation and new solutions to the field of hydropower.
Our Team
Jeremy Kent-Johnston
Managing Director
Jeremy has two decades in hydropower engineering and project management, Jeremy specializes in design, advisory services, due diligence, economics, and management of hydropower projects.
He has led design teams for mega projects such as Borumba (2,000 MW), Pioneer-Burdekin (5,000 MW), and Oven Mountain (900 MW). In addition, he has decades of conventional hydro experience and an ongoing passion for small run of river schemes, such as the Waitaha Hydro Project.
Jeremy also has several active development interests in British Columbia and New Zealand, aiming to balance energy generation with ecological preservation.
Dougal Clunie
Technical Director
Dougal is a civil engineer with over 18 years’ experience in the hydropower, dams and water resources fields.
Working as both a technical expert and leading design teams, Dougal has specialises in the layout and analysis of hydraulic structures and components, dam safety, hydrological studies and sedimentation studies.
Dougal has extensive experience in computational and physical hydraulic modelling, including the design, construction and testing of physical models and holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Auckland for the study of the hydrodynamics of ‘Flow over Fluvial Bedforms’.
Wayne Wu
Principal Engineer
Wayne is a civil engineer with a focus on structural engineering and hydraulics in the hydropower, dams and water resources sectors.
His particular areas of competence in include design and assessment of civil and hydro-mechanical structures, finite element (FEA) and Solid 3D modelling, river and CFD hydraulic modelling.
He is proficient in the use of Geographic Information Systems software including both ArcGIS and QGIS and also in 3D Autodesk CAD environments including AutoCAD, Civil3D and Inventor, for design and drawing production at all design stages of projects.
Bronwyn Therkelsen
Head of Operations
Bronwyn brings more than a decade of operational leadership experience to AusHydro, specializing in project management, strategic planning, and financial oversight.
She works closely with our technical team to ensure that every phase of our clients’ projects are delivered on time and within budget, while maintaining the highest standards of quality.
Prior to joining AusHydro, she served as a strategic consultant, where she implemented operational frameworks and growth strategies for businesses across multiple industries.