Wallerawang Power Station, New South Wales
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| Location | Near Portland, New South Wales |
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| Owner | Delta Electricity |
| Status | Baseload |
| Technology | Steam Turbine |
| Turbines | 2 |
| Max Capacity | 1,000 MW |
Wallerawang Power Station is located near Portland, in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It is coal powered with two steam turbines with a combined generating capacity of 1,000 MW of electricity.
Wallerawang was originally built with four 30 MW generators, completed in 1957-1959, which were referred to as Wallerawang A. Wallerawang B consisted of two 60 MW generators completed in 1961. Wallerawang A and B have both been decommissioned. The two 500 MW units in the current Wallerawang C station were completed in 1976 and 1980.
Wallerawang draws its cooling water from Lake Wallace and Lake Lyell, fresh water lakes on the Cox's River.
The coal for Wallerawang comes from mines in the local area, delivered by private road. 75% of the coal comes from the Angus Place colliery.
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- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.
- Delta Electricity page on Wallerawang
