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| | Bloomberg.com: Australia & New Zealand |
 | | April 4 (Bloomberg) -- Snowy Hydro Ltd., an Australian hydropower producer set to be sold to the public, faces a delay of about eight months in the start-up of a A$150 million ($107 million) gas-fired generator because of construction setbacks. |
 | | The 320-megawatt Laverton North unit, which is being built in Victoria state for Snowy Hydro by Siemens AG, is now scheduled to be completed in August, Paul Johnson, a spokesman for the Cooma, New South Wales-based company, said today. |
 | | Macquarie Bank Ltd., UBS AG and Goldman Sachs JBWere Pty were hired last month by the plant's owners, the federal, Victorian and New South Wales governments, to sell the shares. |
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