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RATCH-Australia
RATCH-Australia Corporation (RAC) is an Australian electricity generation company. It is a subsidiary of RATCH Group (formerly known as Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Company), a public company listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. RATCH-Australia owns both renewable energy and fossil fuel power stations in Australia. History In 2007, Transfield Services spun-off its infrastructure assets into the Transfield Services Infrastructure Fund. In November 2007, it acquired five further power generation assets from Stanwell Corporation and Tarong Energy. RATCH-Australia was established in July 2011 when its parent company bought an 80% stake in Transfield Services Infrastructure Fund via a scheme of arrangement A scheme of arrangement (or a "scheme of reconstruction") is a court-approved agreement between a company and its shareholders or creditors (e.g. lenders or debenture holders). It may affect mergers and amalgamations and may alter shareholder or .... P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Emerald Wind Farm
Mount Emerald Wind Farm is a 180 MW wind farm situated on Mount Emerald, in Arriga, Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. It is approximately 8 km WNW of Tolga, and 49 km SW of Cairns. The project is a joint venture between Port Bajool (land owner) and RATCH-Australia (wind farm developer and operator). RATCH-Australia bought the project from Transfield Services in July 2011. Construction The site was formerly used as a military training area in World War II so the site had to be carefully inspected to find any unexpoded ordnance; several were found and safely destroyed. Operations The wind farm registered its first grid output in August 2018 and reached maximum output in January 2019. The electricty network around the wind farm is generally constrained; this has an impact on the total amount of electricity it can receive from the wind farm. Studies are being undertaken to increasing the capacity of the network using technologies such as synchronous cond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwinana Cogeneration Plant
Kwinana Cogeneration Plant is located south of Perth, Western Australia. It provides steam and electrical power to the BP Australia Kwinana Oil Refinery and electricity only to Synergy, the State owned generator/retailer. As a cogeneration plant, Kwinana supplies both steam and electrical power to its two customers. Steam production from the plant comes predominantly from the waste heat from the gas turbine exhausts and is supported by burning refinery fuel gas from the BP Refinery using 'Duct Burners' inside the Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG). The steam produced drives a steam turbine, further enhancing the plant's efficiency, with BP's steam supply coming from the extraction port on the steam turbine after some pressure and temperature has been lost. Kwinana produces 119MW of electricity, or approximately 6% of Western Australia's requirements. It is primarily fueled by natural gas from Western Australia's North West Shelf gas fields and delivered to the plant by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windy Hill Wind Farm
Windy Hill Wind Farm is a wind power station near Ravenshoe on the Atherton Tableland, Queensland, Australia. It has 20 wind turbines with a generating capacity of 12 MW of electricity, providing enough power for about 3,500 homes. The cost of the project was A$20 million. It was the second wind farm to be constructed in Queensland after the 0.45Mw station on Thursday Island (1997). The power station was commissioned in 2000 and was initially operated by the Stanwell Corporation. In December 2007 Windy Hill was sold to Transfield Services Infrastructure Fund (TSIF) as part of the Queensland Government's ClimateSmart 2050 strategy. A new substation was built to allow the wind farm's power to connect to the existing 66 kV transmission line. RATCH-Australia bought TSIF in 2011. Wind turbines The construction contractor for the wind farm was Powercorp. The wind turbines are located on private land that continues to be used as a dairy farm. Each tower is high. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Townsville Power Station
Townsville Power Station is located in Yabulu, an industrial suburb of Townsville. The station is owned by RATCH-Australia. The station has a 160 MW Siemens turbine and an 82 MW heat recovery steam generator. The station was built in the late 1990s as an open-cycle plant and was upgraded to combined-cycle operation in 2005. See also * List of power stations in Queensland This is a list of active power stations in Queensland, Australia. Candidates for this list must already be commissioned and capable of generating 1 MW or more of electricity. Queensland has a diverse range of power generating types. Coal fi ... References {{Energy in Queensland Buildings and structures in Townsville Natural gas-fired power stations in Queensland 1999 establishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starfish Hill Wind Farm
Starfish Hill Wind Farm is a wind power station spread over two hills near Cape Jervis, South Australia. It has 22 wind turbines, eight on Starfish Hill itself and 14 on Salt Creek Hill, with a combined generating capacity of 33 MW of electricity. Starfish Hill Wind Farm was commissioned in September 2003, making it the first major wind farm in the state. On 30 October 2010, one of the original 23 turbines caught fire and was destroyed. It was not replaced, leaving the wind farm with 22 turbines. Starfish Hill Wind Farm was developed by Tarong Energy at a cost of $65 million. RATCH-Australia RATCH-Australia Corporation (RAC) is an Australian electricity generation company. It is a subsidiary of RATCH Group (formerly known as Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Company), a public company listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailan ... (at that time part of Transfield Services) acquired the wind farm in December 2007. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collinsville Power Station
Collinsville Power Station is located in Collinsville, Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. It had five coal powered steam turbines with a combined generation capacity of 190 MW of electricity. The coal-fired power station closed in 2013. A solar power farm generating 42MW has been built on adjacent land. Solar power RATCH-Australia, the operator of the plant, is in the process of decommissioning and putting under care and maintenance the Collinsville coal-fired power station. It was investigating options to redevelop the site with one or more new forms of electricity generation. As of 20 February 2013, RATCH was partnering with the University of Queensland to investigate replacing all the coal-fired power generators with solar thermal generators. On 10 July 2014 it was announced that the solar thermal plans for Collinsville would not be proceeding. On 8 May 2017 it was announced that it will be replaced by a 42MW solar farm. CIMIC Group's UGL Limited has the contracts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadspectrum
Broadspectrum, formerly known as Transfield Services, was an Australian and New Zealand company that provided infrastructure maintenance services. Formerly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, and later owned by Ferrovial, it was then acquired by Ventia who integrated Broadspectrum alongside Visionstream Overview Broadspectrum operated across diverse industries, including property and facilities management, defence, transport (including road, rail and public transport), utilities (including water, power, and telecommunications), and mining and chemical processing and hydrocarbons. Its clients included major national and international companies, as well as all levels of government. History In May 2001, Transfield Holdings spun-off its maintenance contracting division along with power, transportation and water assets and listed it on the Australian Securities Exchange as Transfield Services. Transfield Holdings had an initial 45% shareholding. In July 2004, Transfi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemerton Power Station
Kemerton Power Station is a power station 17 km northeast of Bunbury in Western Australia. It is located in an area known as the Kemerton Industrial Park. The location had been considered as being Kemerton, in the 1980s as a potential aluminium smelter location, but is now considered to be part of Wellesley. The consideration of the site as being appropriate as a power station site was being considered in the early 2000s. It is rated at 300 MW using two Siemens open cycle gas turbine generators powered by natural gas. It operates as a peaking plant and provides electricity into the South West Interconnected System (SWIS). When it was built in 2005, it was rated at 260.9 MW, and received an upgrade to the current capacity in June 2008. When gas is not available, the power station can also operate on fuel oil. Gas is supplied to the Kemerton Power Station via a 4.94 km lateral branch from the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline. The branch line is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yandin Wind Farm
Yandin Wind Farm is one of Western Australia's largest wind power stations, located in Dandaragan, Western Australia. Construction was completed in late October 2020. It comprises 51 turbines with hub heights of to maximise performance in the site's specific wind conditions. The turbines are Vestas V150 variants with a 4.2 MW capacity, resulting in a total generation capacity of 214 MW. Commissioning began in July 2020 with increasing outputs being exported onto the South West Interconnected System as capacity (turbines) came online. The wind farm opened in May 2021. Alinta Energy Alinta Energy is an Australian electricity generating and gas retailing private company owned by Hong Kong-based Chow Tai Fook Enterprises (CTFE). It was sold for $4 billion and was approved Treasurer Scott Morrison in 2017. Alinta Energy has an ... stated "the wind farm would power the equivalent of approximately 200,000 households across Western Australia each year." Notes References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toora Wind Farm
Toora Wind Farm is a wind power station at Toora in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. It is located north of Wilsons Promontory and 150 km south-east of Melbourne. The wind farm is on a ridge overlooking the town of Toora. Toora has 12 wind turbines, each of 1.75 MW rated capacity, with a total generating capacity of 21 MW of electricity. Vestas Wind Systems completed the power station in 2002. In November 2007, Transfield Services Infrastructure Fund acquired the wind farm from the Government of Queensland. Transfield Services Infrastructure Fund became RATCH-Australia on 11 July 2011. Viewing and photography points are available on a road that passes the wind farm. From some of these views of the coastal plain, the Strzelecki Ranges The Strzelecki Ranges (pronounced STREHZ leckee) is a set of low mountain ridges located in the West Gippsland and South Gippsland regions of the Australian state of Victoria. The Ranges are named after Paweł Edmund Strzeleck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coal Seam Gas
Coalbed methane (CBM or coal-bed methane), coalbed gas, coal seam gas (CSG), or coal-mine methane (CMM) is a form of natural gas extracted from coal beds. In recent decades it has become an important source of energy in United States, Canada, Australia, and other countries. The term refers to methane adsorption, absorbed into the solid matrix of the coal. It is called 'sweet gas' because of its lack of hydrogen sulfide. The presence of this gas is well known from Firedamp, its occurrence in underground coal mining, where it presents a serious Methane#Safety, safety risk. Coalbed methane is distinct from a typical sandstone or other conventional gas reservoir, as the methane is stored within the coal by a process called adsorption. The methane is in a near-liquid state, lining the inside of pores within the coal (called the matrix). The open fractures in the coal (called the cleats) can also contain free gas or can be saturated with water. Unlike much natural gas from conventiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria, Australia
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolitan area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
