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)[reply]
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| This page is now out of date. Verve has now retired stage B(2x120MW of plant)and is due to retire stage A(2x120MW of plant)late 2009. Further the Western Australian Government announced in 2009 that Verve is adding a high efficiency gas turbine to the site. Keelback (talk) 07:09, 3 June 2009 (UTC) This page needs considerable updating and may I suggest rename as NewGen has also build a power staion in the area which it has also called Kwinana Power Station. Details here http://www.ermpower.com.au/node/239 I would update this page however I have left the industry so I am not fully up to date. Keelback (talk) 15:20, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply] |
Last edited at 15:20, 3 May 2012 (UTC). Substituted at 21:27, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
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.
