Tarong North Power Station is a 443 megawatt coal fired power station on the same site as

Tarong Power Station The Tarong Power Station is a coal fired power station located on a site in Tarong in the South Burnett Region near the town of Nanango, in Queensland, Australia. The station has a maximum generating capacity of 1,400 megawatts, generated f ...

in the

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. The

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commissioned the construction of the power station in November 1999. Construction work began in 2000. The power station was initially owned by a 50/50 joint venture between

Tarong Energy Tarong Energy was an electricity generation company in Australia. It was fully owned by the Queensland Government, and had a portfolio of generating sites using thermal coal and hydroelectric power in Queensland. Following a review by the Treas ...

and TM Energy.Tarong North Power Station
. Retrieved on 3 January 2014. Full ownership of the power station by Tarong Energy was obtained in November 2009. The plant was opened in 2003 and is based on an energy efficient supercritical design. The Steam Generator was supplied by

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and the steam turbine was manufactured by

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.Power Technology Project Page for Tarong North
/ref> Particulate emissions at the power station are reduced by bag filter technology.

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Coal-fired power stations in Queensland Wide Bay–Burnett Power stations in Queensland {{Queensland-struct-stub

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