The Ord River Dam Hydro Scheme is a privately funded, owned and operated power system in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. It consists of a new 36 MW hydro electric power station at Lake Argyle interconnected, by lengthy 132 kV transmission lines, with existing diesel fuelled power systems at the Argyle diamond mine and the Kununurra township. The scheme can currently only produce 1% of the power the Snowy Mountains Scheme produces.

Sinclair Knight Merz played a key role in the development of the scheme from its initial feasibility studies through to final commissioning. The firm was responsible for initial scheme concepts, power system stability, general concepts, the design of penstocks and bifurcations, specification and selection of generation plant, powerhouse layout, definition of piping, instrumentation and control items, the switchyard and transmission system, and supervision of installation and commissioning.

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