Talk:Kwinana Power Station

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It has a 160 MW natural gas powered Alstom GT13E2 gas turbine which provides steam to an 80 MW steam turbine that together generate a total 240 MW of electricity.

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My comments below are still valid. Whilst this page has been updated since, this page is hopelessly incorrect. I should know. I worked there in the early 1980's as a mechanical engineer. However I left the industry back in 2001 so I am not aware of this station's more recent history. I believe that all the units have now been retired (October 2015 - See the Western Australian State Government's media release of Thursday, 27 June 2013). When I worked there, the station consisted of 4 by 120MW steam turbines (Stages A and B), 2 by 200MW steam turbines (Stage C) and a 21MW distillate fired GE gas turbine. It was the Stage C units that won the Institution of Engineers Australia for conversion to coal firing (It was a world first at the time)although the Stage B units were sometime later also converted to coal firing. Keelback (talk) 14:06, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

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According to the Wikipedia page for Cockburn Power Station this info about Cockburn is incorrect. To quote the other wikipedia page: "It has a 160 MW natural gas powered Alstom GT13E2 gas turbine which provides steam to an 80 MW steam turbine that together generate a total 240 MW of electricity." Other sources like OpenNEM suggest Cockburn is 240-250 MW OCGT and the electricity generated logged with the CER under the Safeguard Mechanism would suggest it is 240 MW or higher not 2x 100 MW = 200 MWW.


 * Section removed. Betterkeks (talk) 11:09, 27 July 2022 (UTC)