Colongra Gas Generation Plant (also known as Colongra Power Station) is a 667 MW gas-fired power station located in
Colongra, New South Wales
Colongra is a suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, on the banks of Lake Munmorah. It is part of the local government area.
At the 2021 Australian census
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,
Australia
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and is the largest gas-fired power station in
New South Wales
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. It will generally be used during peak demand periods in New South Wales.
The plant's construction was tendered to
Alstom
Alstom SA is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling, and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar, Avelia ...
which began the construction in October 2007, adjacent to the
Munmorah coal-fired power station. The plant was completed and commissioned in December 2009 at a cost of
A$500 million.
It was bought by
Snowy Hydro
Snowy Hydro Limited is an electricity generation and retailing company in Australia that owns, manages, and maintains the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme which consists of nine hydro-electric power stations and sixteen large dams connecte ...
in January 2015.
References
Natural gas-fired power stations in New South Wales
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