Collie Power Station

Collie Power Station is a power station in Collie, Western Australia. It is coal powered with one steam turbine that generates a total capacity of 300 MW of electricity. The coal is mined locally from the Collie Sub-basin and is transported to the power plant by overland conveyor.

In financial year 2008-09 the station consumed approximately 1 million tonnes of coal.

The station was commissioned in 1999 with a single 300 MW steam turbine. Power generated by the station supplies southern, Western Australia.

Carbon Monitoring for Action estimates this power station emits 2.39 million tonnes of greenhouse gases each year as a result of burning coal.^[1]

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Energy in Western Australia

Coal	Bluewaters Collie Kwinana Muja Worsley Alumina

Gas	Cockburn Dampier Kwinana Kwinana Co-gen Mungarra Neerabup Newman Pinjar Pinjarra Port Hedland Telfer Gold Mine Wagerup

Major hydro	Ord River Hydro Wellington Dam

Wind farms	Albany Collgar Emu Downs Nine Mile Beach Ten Mile Lagoon Walkaway

Companies	Alinta ATCO ERM Power Griffin Energy Horizon Power Synergy Verve Energy Western Power Rio Tinto Iron Ore

Historical	Fremantle Gas and Coke Company State Electricity Commission of Western Australia State Energy Commission of Western Australia Western Power Corporation

List of power stations in Western Australia

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