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Callide Power Station
Coal-fired power station in Australia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Callide Power Station is an electricity generator at Mount Murchison, Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. It is coal powered with eight steam turbines with a combined generation capacity of 1,720 megawatts (MW) of electricity. Callide A was commissioned in 1965, refurbished in 1998 and decommissioned in 2015/16.[2] As of 2018, generation capacity was 1510 MW.[2]
Callide Power Station | |
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![]() Control room, Callide Power Station, circa 1967 | |
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Country | Australia |
Location | 1092 Biloela Callide Road, Mount Murchison, Shire of Banana, Queensland |
Coordinates | 24.3450°S 150.6196°E / -24.3450; 150.6196 (Callide Power Station) |
Status | Offline November 2022 |
Commission date | 1965 |
Construction cost | $28.7 million |
Owner(s) | CS Energy (50%), Intergen (50%)[1] |
Operator(s) | |
Thermal power station | |
Primary fuel | Coal |
Turbine technology | Steam turbines |
Cooling source | Fresh |
Power generation | |
Units operational | 8 |
Nameplate capacity | 1,720 MW |
The coal for Callide comes from the nearby Callide Coalfields and water from the Awoonga dam and Stag Creek Pipeline.[3]
An explosion and fire at the Callide C power plant in late May 2021 caused a significant power outage that affected over 375,000 premises and raised electricity prices for weeks afterwards.
November 2022 all four units at the coal-fired Callide Power Station were not operating after a structural failure at the cooling plant brought the C3 unit offline, and later on the B2 unit tripped during scheduled testing, followed by the last unit, B1, also tripping.[4][5]
CS Energy owns 100 per cent of Callide A and Callide B, and owns Callide C in a 50/50 joint venture with IG Power.