Swanbank Power Station, Queensland

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Swanbank Power Station is located in South-East Queensland, Australia. It is coal, natural gas, and landfill gas powered with a combined generation capacity of 865 MW of electricity.

The coal for Swanbank comes from coalfields in South-East Queensland, by rail and road.

Swanbank B was commissioned in 1973 with four 120 MW steam turbines, powered by coal. Swanbank E was commissioned in 2002 with a single 385 MW combined cycle gas turbine.

Swanbank A Station, which was one of the coal burning stations, was decommissioned in August 2005. The three 133m high, 7000 tonne concrete smoke stacks were collapsed on August 20th, 2006. All three were collapsed at the same time with a 10 second delay between each stack. The deconstruction and demolition project, undertaken by Trio Industries, was scheduled to be completed in February 2007.

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Coordinates: -27.659783° 152.813446°

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