Lonsdale Power Station is a diesel-powered electricity generator in
South Australia in
Lonsdale, an industrial southern suburb of
Adelaide. It is owned by
Snowy Hydro since 2014. It consists of 18 diesel
reciprocating engines generating up to 21MW of electricity to meet peak demands in the
National Electricity Market.
The power station was designed and built by
Cummins Power Generation under contract from
Infratil in 2002 on what is now the site of the
Port Stanvac Power Station
Port Stanvac Power Station is a diesel-powered electricity generator in South Australia in Lonsdale, an industrial southern suburb of Adelaide. It is owned by Snowy Hydro since 2014. It consists of 36 diesel engines each generating 1.6MW for ...
. It was moved along the road to its present site in 2011. Snowy Hydro bought assets from
Infratil in 2014. These included
Lumo Energy, Direct Connect and three diesel peaking generators for a total of 136 MW. The other two were
Angaston Power Station and
Port Stanvac Power Station
Port Stanvac Power Station is a diesel-powered electricity generator in South Australia in Lonsdale, an industrial southern suburb of Adelaide. It is owned by Snowy Hydro since 2014. It consists of 36 diesel engines each generating 1.6MW for ...
.
It achieves the low emissions mandated by the
Environment Protection Agency through
selective catalytic reduction technology, matching standards set for gas turbines.
References
Diesel power stations in South Australia
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