Townsville Power Station is located in
Yabulu
Yabulu is a town and coastal suburb in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. In the , Yabulu had a population of 697 people.
Geography
Yabulu is approximately north of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The Bruce Highway passes thro ...
, an
industrial suburb
An industrial suburb is a community, near a large city, with an industrial economy. These communities may be established as tax havens or as places where zoning promotes industry, or they may be industrial towns that become suburbs by urban spr ...
of
Townsville
Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. With a population of 180,820 as of June 2018, it is the largest settlement in North Queensland; it is unofficially considered its capital. Estimated resident population, 3 ...
. The station is owned by
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 ...
. The station has a 160 MW Siemens turbine and an 82 MW
heat recovery steam generator
A heat recovery steam generator (''HRSG'') is an energy recovery heat exchanger that recovers heat from a hot gas stream, such as a combustion turbine or other waste gas stream. It produces steam that can be used in a process (cogeneration) or us ...
.
The station was built in the late 1990s as an open-cycle plant and was upgraded to combined-cycle operation in 2005.
See also
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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