Newman Power Station

Newman Power Station is a power station in Newman, WA part of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It is located about 1,186 kilometres (737 mi) north of Perth, and 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) north of the Tropic of Capricorn. It is a 178MW natural gas-fired power station servicing BHP Billiton’s “islanded grid”. Newman currently provides 100% of the power requirement of the islanded grid which supplies electricity to the Mt Newman Joint Venture operated by BHP Billiton Iron Ore.

The station was commissioned in 1996.

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Alinta Energy generation

Energy in Western Australia

Coal	Bluewaters Collie Kwinana Muja Worsley Alumina

Gas	Cockburn Dampier Kwinana Kwinana Co-gen Mungarra Neerabup Newman Pinjar Pinjarra Port Hedland Telfer Gold Mine Wagerup

Major hydro	Ord River Hydro Wellington Dam

Wind farms	Albany Collgar Emu Downs Nine Mile Beach Ten Mile Lagoon Walkaway

Companies	Alinta ATCO ERM Power Griffin Energy Horizon Power Synergy Verve Energy Western Power Rio Tinto Iron Ore

Historical	State Energy Commission of Western Australia Fuel and Power Commission Western Power Corporation

List of power stations in Western Australia

Newman Power Station

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