Anglesea Power Station

Anglesea Power Station
The single steam turbine 150MW Anglesea power station. Photo: John Englart
Country	Australia
Location	Anglesea, Victoria
Coordinates	38°23′20.51″S 144°10′50.12″E / 38.3890306°S 144.1805889°E / -38.3890306; 144.1805889
Status	Closed
Commission date	20 March 1969
Decommission date	31 August 2015
Owner	Alcoa
Operator	Alcoa
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Brown coal
Power generation
Units operational	1 × 150 megawatts (200,000 hp)
Nameplate capacity	150 megawatts (200,000 hp)
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The Anglesea Power Station was a brown coal–powered thermal power station located at Anglesea, in Victoria, Australia. The station had one steam turbine, with a capacity of 150 megawatts (200,000 hp). It was operated by Alcoa of Australia and supplied almost 40% of the electricity used by the company's Point Henry aluminium smelter, until the smelter's closure in August 2014.

The power station was brought online on 20 March 1969,^[1] and was supplied with brown coal from the adjacent open cut mine, transported to the power station along a 3-kilometre (1.9 mi)-long private road. Overburden was stripped and backfilled into the mined area by earthmoving contractors, using conventional power shovels and trucks. About 80 people worked at the mine and power station.^[2]

In June 2015, Alcoa announced that the power plant and mine would close at the end of August 2015, after the company was unable to find a buyer for the power station.^[3] On 31 August 2015, the plant ceased operation as planned.^[4] Mine rehabilitation, and plant decommissioning and demolition, have been carried out.