List of natural gas power stations in Australia explained

Gas turbine power stations use gas combustion to generate some or all of the electricity they produce. Thermal gas power stations use gas combustion to power steam turbines that generate some or all of the electricity they produce. Reciprocating gas power stations use gas combustion in reciprocating engines to generate some or all of the electricity they produce.

New South Wales

Gas (turbine)

Power station	Operator	data-sort-type="number"	Max. capacity		Fuel type	Combined cycle
Colongra	Snowy Hydro	667 MW	4	natural gas	no
Liddell	AGL Energy	50 MW	2	fuel oil	no
Tallawarra	EnergyAustralia	435 MW	2	natural gas	yes
Smithfield	Visy^[1]	171 MW	4	natural gas	yes
Uranquinty	Origin Energy	641 MW	4	natural gas	no

Gas (reciprocating)

Power station	data-sort-type="number"	Max. capacity		Fuel type
Appin Mine	55.6 MW	54	coalbed methane+natural gas
Belrose	4 MW	1	landfill gas
Earthpower Camellia	3.9 MW	3	biogas
Jacks Gully	2.3 MW	1	landfill gas
Lucas Heights I	5.4 MW	5	landfill gas
Lucas Heights II	17.3 MW	15	landfill gas
Sydney Water, Malabar	3 MW	3	sewage gas
Shoalhaven Landfill Gas Project	1 MW	1	landfill gas
Tahmoor https://web.archive.org/web/20100328022435/http://www.envirogen.net.au/tahmoor.htm	7 MW	7	coalbed methane
Teralba	8 MW	8	coalbed methane
Tower Mine	41.2 MW	40	coalbed methane+natural gas
Wilga	11 MW	11	natural gas
Woodlawn	4 MW	4	landfill gas
Kincumber Landfill Gas Abatement^[2]	1 MW	1	landfill gas
Woy Woy Landfill Gas Abatement	1 MW	1	landfill gas

State total (MW): 2129.7

Queensland

Gas (turbine)

Power station	Max. capacity		Fuel type	Cycle	Refs
Barcaldine	55 MW	2	natural gas	Combined
Braemar	952 MW	6	coal seam gas	Open
Bulwer Island, BP	32 MW	3	coal seam gas	Combined
Condamine	144 MW	3	coal seam gas	Combined
Darling Downs	630 MW	4	coal seam gas	Combined
Diamantina	242 MW	2	coal seam gas	Combined
Leichhardt	60 MW	1	coal seam gas	Open
Mackay Gas Turbine	34 MW	1	oil	Open
Mica Creek	318 MW	12	natural gas	Combined
Mount Stuart	414 MW	3	kerosene	Open
Oakey	282 MW	2	natural gas	Open
Phosphate Hill	42 MW	9	natural gas	Combined
Roma	80 MW	2	natural gas	Open
Swanbank E	385 MW	1	natural gas/coal seam gas	Combined	^[3]
Tarong Gas Turbine	15 MW	1	diesel	Open
Townsville	242 MW	2	coal seam gas	Combined

Gas (reciprocating)

Power station	Max. capacity		Fuel type
Browns Plains	2.18 MW	2	landfill gas
Cannington, BHP^[4]	40.06 MW	22	natural gas / diesel
Condamine	3 MW	1	coal seam gas
Coominya, AFC Abattoirs	1.73 MW	3	natural gas
Daandine	33 MW	11	coal seam gas
Luggage Point, Myrtletown	3 MW	2	sewage gas
Middlemount^[5]	45 MW	20	coal seam gas
Moranbah^[6]	45 MW	15	coal seam gas
Mount Isa XPS41	47.5 MW	19	natural gas
Rochedale	3.3 MW	3	landfill gas
Roghan Road	1.95 MW	1	landfill gas
Stapylton	1 MW	1	landfill gas
Suntown, Arundel	1 MW	1	landfill gas
Swanbank B	7 MW	1	landfill gas
Whitwood Road	1.1 MW	1	landfill gas
Molendinar	0.7 MW	1	landfill gas

State total (MW): 3713.52

South Australia

Gas (turbine)

Power station	Owner/operator	Max. capacity		Fuel type	Combined cycle
Coopers Brewer (Regency Park)	AGL Energy	4.4 MW	1	natural gas	yes
Dry Creek	Synergen Power	156 MW	3	natural gas	no
Hallett	Energy Australia	180 MW	12	natural gas/diesel	yes
Ladbroke Grove	Origin Energy	80 MW	2	natural gas	no
Mintaro	Synergen Power	90 MW	1	natural gas	no
Osborne	Osborne Cogeneration	180 MW	2	natural gas	yes
Port Lincoln	Synergen Power	73.5 MW	3	diesel	no
Quarantine	Origin Energy	224 MW	5	natural gas	no
Pelican Point	Engie	478 MW	3	natural gas	yes
Snuggery	Synergen Power	63 MW	3	diesel	no
Whyalla Steelworks	Arrium	8.4 MW	2	natural gas	no
Temporary Generation North^[7]	SA Government	154 MW	5	diesel	no
Temporary Generation South	SA Government	123 MW	4	diesel	no

The two "temporary generation" facilities were introduced by the South Australian government before the 2017-18 summer season using General Electric gas turbine generators. They are intended to be used only in extreme circumstances to support the grid following two widespread blackouts in 2016. They are installed at the sites of the former Holden factory in Elizabeth South and the Adelaide Desalination Plant at Lonsdale.^[8]

Gas (thermal)

Power station	Owner/operator	Max. capacity		Fuel type
Torrens Island	AGL Energy	1,280 MW	8	natural gas
Whyalla Steelworks	Arrium	57.5 MW	3	Coke Ovens and Blast Furnace Gas/Oil

Gas (reciprocating)

Power station	Owner/operator	Max. capacity		Fuel type
Angaston	Snowy Hydro	50 MW	30	diesel
Lonsdale	Snowy Hydro	21 MW	18	diesel
Port Stanvac	Snowy Hydro	58 MW	36	diesel
Kangaroo Island power station^[9]	SA Power Networks	6 MW	3	diesel
Blue Lake Milling Power Plant	Vibe Energy	1 MW	1	diesel
Tatiara Meats Bordertown	Vibe Energy	1 MW	1	diesel
Pedler Creek Landfill		3 MW	3	landfill gas
Wingfield landfill	Energy Developments	8 MW	8	landfill gas
Bolivar waste water treatment plant	SA Water	9.9 MW	4	sewerage gas
		210 MW	12	natural gas

State total (MW): 3519.7

Tasmania

Gas (turbine)

Power station	Coordinates	Max. capacity		Fuel type	Combined cycle	Ref.
MW	hp
Bell Bay	-41.1419°N 146.9025°W	1350NaN0	3	Natural gas	No
Tamar Valley		2100NaN0	5	Natural gas	Yes

Note that the above three power stations are in fact the same power station listed upon commissioning after conversion to gas and recommissioning after a turbine upgrade. It has been decommissioned since 2009.

Gas (reciprocating)

Power station	Coordinates	Max. capacity		Fuel type	Ref.
MW	hp
McRobies Gully, South Hobart		10NaN0	1	Landfill gas
Launceston General Hospital, Launceston		20NaN0	1	Natural gas
Jackson Street, Glenorchy		1.60NaN0	1	Landfill gas

State total (MW): 589.6

Victoria

Gas (turbine)

Power station	Max. capacity		Fuel type		Ref
	92 MW	2		no
	432 MW	7	natural gas	no
	320 MW	2	natural gas	no
	31.8 MW	6	natural gas	no
	550 MW	2	natural gas	no
	160 MW	4	natural gas	no
	300 MW	12	natural gas	no

Gas (reciprocating)

Power station	Max. capacity		Fuel type	Ref
Boral Western Landfill, Ravenhall	4.6 MW	4
	6.2 MW	6	landfill gas
	2.83 MW	3	landfill gas
	11 MW	11	landfill gas
Corio (EDL)	1 MW	1	landfill gas
	1 MW	1	landfill gas
Morwell (Tramway Road) (HRL)	5 MW	1
Narre Warren	7.2 MW	5	landfill gas
	4.2 MW	4	landfill gas
	8.7 MW	1	landfill gas
Werribee (AGL Energy)	7.8 MW	7
	1 MW	1	landfill gas

State total (MW): 6946.33

Western Australia

Gas (turbine)

Power station	Max. capacity		Fuel type	Combined cycle
Cape Lambert (Pilbara Iron)	105 MW	3	natural gas	no
Cape Preston	450 MW	7	natural gas	yes
Cawse	21 MW	4	natural gas	no
Cockburn	240 MW	2	natural gas	yes
Dampier	120 MW	3	natural gas	no
Esperance (Burns and Roe Worley)	33 MW	4	natural gas	no
Kambalda	42 MW	1	natural gas	no
Kalgoorlie	42 MW	1	natural gas	no
Kemerton (Transfield)	260.9 MW	2	natural gas	no
Kwinana	21 MW	1	natural gas	no
Kwinana - BP Refining	120 MW	3	natural gas	yes
Kwinana - NewGen^[10]	320 MW	1	natural gas	yes
Kwinana - Tiwest	36 MW	1	natural gas	no
Leinster	42 MW	1	natural gas
Mount Keith	67 MW	2	natural gas	no
Mungarra	112 MW	3	natural gas	no
Murrin Murrin (Minara Resources)	76 MW	3	natural gas	yes
Neerabup	330 MW	2	natural gas	no
Newman	170 MW	4	natural gas/diesel	no
Parkeston	110 MW	3	natural gas/diesel	no
Pinjar	576 MW	9	natural gas/diesel	no
Pinjarra Alumina Refinery, Alcoa / AGL	280 MW	2	natural gas	No
Port Hedland	175 MW	5	natural gas/diesel	no
Paraburdoo (Pilbara Iron)	155 MW	4	natural gas	no
Worsley Alumina Power Station	120 MW	1	natural gas	yes

Gas (thermal)

Power station	Max. capacity		Fuel type
Capel (Iluka Resources)	6.5 MW	1	waste gas
Kwinana Alumina Refinery, Alcoa	74.5 MW	7	natural gas
Pinjarra Alumina Refinery, Alcoa	95 MW	4	natural gas
Telfer Gold Mine, Newcrest	135 MW	3	natural gas
Wagerup Alumina Refinery, Alcoa	98 MW	4	natural gas

Gas (reciprocating)

Power station	Max. capacity		Fuel type
Atlas (Mirrabooka)	1.1 MW	1	landfill gas
Canning Vale	4 MW	1	landfill gas
Carnarvon	15.27 MW	3	natural gas
Dongara	1.6 MW	3	natural gas
Henderson (Wattleup)	2.13 MW	1	landfill gas
Jundee (Northern Star Ltd)	13.2 MW	6	natural gas
Kalamunda	1.9 MW	1	landfill gas
Kelvin Road, Gosnells	2 MW	2	landfill gas
Leonora	3.2 MW	5	natural gas
Millar Road, Rockingham	1.6 MW	2	landfill gas
Mount Magnet	1.9 MW	1	natural gas
Plutonic (Billabong Gold)	16 MW	4	natural gas
Red Hill	3.65 MW	1	landfill gas
South Cardup	3.3 MW	3	landfill gas
Tamala Park	4.65 MW	1	landfill gas
Wiluna (Blackham Resources)	9 MW (mothballed,4 sets operational)	3	natural gas
Windimurra	13 MW	4	natural gas
Wodgina Tantalum Mine	8.82 MW	10	natural gas
Woodman Point	1.8 MW	3	sewage gas

State total (MW): 4541.02

See also

• List of power stations in Australia
• List of coal power stations
• List of coal fired power stations in Australia
• List of largest power stations in the world

Notes and References

1. News: Packager Visy sparks power plant auction, tests buyer appetite . 21 May 2018 . 10 August 2018 . . Fairfax Media.
2. Web site: Hallett Wind Farms | About AGL .
3. Web site: Swanbank E CCGT Power Plant . Global Energy Observatory . 27 April 2014.
4. http://www.energydevelopments.com.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=82 Remote Energy
5. Web site: German Creek Power Station . energydevelopments.azurewebsites.net . 24 November 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171201035325/http://energydevelopments.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/German-Creek-Factsheet_Rev1.pdf . 2017-12-01 . dead.
6. http://www.power-technology.com/projects/moranbah-north-power/ Moranbah North Power Station
7. Web site: NEM Registration and Exemption List . . 3 January 2017.
8. News: South Australian power stations will prevent blackouts this summer, SA Government says . Nick . Harmsen . staff . . 1 August 2017 . 3 January 2018.
9. Web site: Kangaroo Island Project Profile . SDA Engineering . 3 January 2018.
10. Web site: NewGen Kwinana Power Station. ERM Power. 2018-08-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20120410044801/http://www.ermpower.com.au/power/kwinana. 2012-04-10. dead.