Yarrawonga Weir Power Station is a
hydroelectric power station at
Lake Mulwala
Lake Mulwala, a manmade reservoir created through the construction of the Yarrawonga Weir across the Murray River, is located between and in Hume region of Victoria and in the Riverina region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The weir ...
on the
Murray River
The Murray River (in South Australia: River Murray) (Ngarrindjeri: ''Millewa'', Yorta Yorta: ''Tongala'') is a river in Southeastern Australia. It is Australia's longest river at extent. Its tributaries include five of the next six longest ...
,
Victoria
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,
Australia. Yarrawonga Weir has a generating capacity of of
electricity
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.
It is a
run-of-the-river
Run-of-river hydroelectricity (ROR) or run-of-the-river hydroelectricity is a type of hydroelectric generation plant whereby little or no water storage is provided. Run-of-the-river power plants may have no water storage at all or a limited amou ...
generator with two
Kaplan turbine
The Kaplan turbine is a propeller-type water turbine which has adjustable blades. It was developed in 1913 by Austrian professor Viktor Kaplan, who combined automatically adjusted propeller blades with automatically adjusted wicket gates to ach ...
s each with capacity to generate 4.75 MW. It was commissioned in 1994 and connects to the Victorian electricity grid at 22 kV.
References
Energy infrastructure completed in 1994
Hydroelectric power stations in Victoria (Australia)
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