Stanwell Power Station

Power station in Queensland, Australia

Stanwell Power Station

Stanwell Power Station, 2017

Country| Australia
Location| Stanwell, Rockhampton Region
Coordinates| 23°30′35″S 150°19′7″E﻿ / ﻿23.50972°S 150.31861°E﻿ / -23.50972; 150.31861
Status| Operational
Commission date| 1993 - 1996
Owner(s)| Stanwell Corporation
Thermal power station
Primary fuel| Coal
Power generation
Nameplate capacity| 1,445 MW

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Stanwell Power Station is a government-owned coal-fired power generation station located in Stanwell, 23 kilometres (14 mi) south-west of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. At the time of construction, it was one of the largest industrial developments undertaken in Queensland. With a capacity to generate 1,445 megawatts (MW), Stanwell Power Station supplies electricity for distribution to customers via the state's high voltage electricity grid.[1]

## History

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The station is located on 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares) of land.[1] Construction of the station took seven years, with infrastructure built to withstand cyclonic winds.[1] The first unit at Stanwell was commissioned in 1992, and the station became fully operational in 1996.[2]

## Fuel

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Coal is transport via rail from several Central Queensland coal mines.[2] About 4 million tons of coal are used each year.[2]

## Design

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There are four generating units at Stanwell Power Station. The four units and their components are housed in a 20 storey boiler house and a turbine hall the length of three football fields. The power station is highly automated and achieves both an efficient,[clarification needed] effective workplace and high asset performance through the application of innovative technology[3] and organisational design. These innovations have been recognised both nationally and internationally. Stanwell Power Station previously held the world record at 1,073 days of continuous operation on Unit 4.[4] This was surpassed in 2021 by Canadian public entity Ontario Power Generation's Darlington Nuclear Generating Station Unit 1, which ran for 1,106 days continuous.[5]

The station features a 210-metre-high-chimney stack which was constructed using approximately 750,000 bricks.[1] The station has two cooling towers, each stands 130 metres high (about the height of a 40-storey building) and is 100 metres in diameter.[1] Fifteen thousand cubic metres of concrete was poured for each tower.[1] The plume seen coming from the cooling towers is steam, lost through evaporation during the water-cooling process.

## Additional facilities

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The Queensland government and Stanwell decided to build a 1 MW / 10 MWh iron redox flow battery.[6] Construction of a 300 MW / 1,200 MWh battery storage power station at AU$747 million for 2027 started in 2024.[7][8]

## See also

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* Energy portal
* Queensland portal

* List of active power stations in Queensland

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f Stanwell Corporation Ltd (October 2008). Factsheet: Stanwell Power Station. Stanwell Corporation Ltd.
2. ^ a b c "Stanwell Coal Power Station, Australia". www.power-technology.com. Verdict Media. Archived from the original on 2 November 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
3. ^ Virtual plant model Archived 2017-01-13 at the Wayback Machine created by the University of Queensland, based on the actual VisSim model used prior to construction.
4. ^ World Record for Continuous Operation Archived 30 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine. Guinness World Records. Retrieved on 27 November 2021.
5. ^ "Our story > Darlington's Unit 1 heads into planned outage after record-breaking run". OPG. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
6. ^ "Stanwell signs major deal for Australian-made long duration iron flow batteries". RenewEconomy. 5 October 2023. Archived from the original on 10 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
7. ^ "Queensland quadruples size of Stanwell Tesla battery to make it biggest in the state". RenewEconomy. 8 May 2024. Archived from the original on 10 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
8. ^ "Stanwell begins work on huge 1200MWh mega battery as it starts transformation of major coal hub". RenewEconomy. 12 August 2024.

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