Tarong Energy was an

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company in Australia. It was fully owned by the

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, and had a portfolio of generating sites using thermal coal and hydroelectric power in

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. Following a review by the

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of the state's electricity sector in 2010, the assets of Tarong Energy were split between Stanwell Corporation and

CS Energy CS Energy is an Australia-based electricity generating company fully owned by the Government of Queensland with its head office located in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. The company was established in 1997 and employs more than 500 staff. Jim Soor ...

on 1 July 2011. Tarong Energy as an entity became a subsidiary of Stanwell Corporation. The restructure was made to save costs. The company supplied roughly one quarter of Queensland's electricity supply. Energy was sourced from

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 ...

, Tarong North Power Station and

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in Queensland. Tarong Power Station is the major employer in the

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region. The company has been working on post-combustion emission capture technologies in an effort to reduce the impacts of

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