| Callide Power Station | |
|---|---|
 Control room, Callide Power Station, circa 1967 | |
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| Country | Australia |
| Location | 1092 Biloela Callide Road, Mount Murchison, Shire of Banana, Queensland |
| Coordinates | 24°20′42″S 150°37′11″E / 24.3450°S 150.6196°E |
| Status | Offline November 2022 |
| Commission date | 1965 |
| Construction cost | $28.7 million |
| Owners | CS Energy (50%), Intergen (50%)[1] |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Coal |
| Turbine technology | Steam turbines |
| Cooling source | Fresh |
| Power generation | |
| Units operational | 8 |
| Nameplate capacity | 1,720 MW |
Callide Power Station is an electricity generator at Mount Murchison, Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. It is coal powered with eight steam turbines with a combined generation capacity of 1,720 megawatts (MW) of electricity. Callide A was commissioned in 1965, refurbished in 1998 and decommissioned in 2015/16.[2] As of 2018, generation capacity was 1510 MW.[2]
The coal for Callide comes from the nearby Callide Coalfields and water from the Awoonga dam and Stag Creek Pipeline.[3]
An explosion and fire at the Callide C power plant in late May 2021 caused a significant power outage that affected over 375,000 premises and raised electricity prices for weeks afterwards.
November 2022 all four units at the coal-fired Callide Power Station were not operating after a structural failure at the cooling plant brought the C3 unit offline, and later on the B2 unit tripped during scheduled testing, followed by the last unit, B1, also tripping.[4][5]
CS Energy owns 100 per cent of Callide A and Callide B, and owns Callide C in a 50/50 joint venture with IG Power.
- ^ "Callide Power Station". Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- ^ a b "Callide Power Station". Archived from the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
- ^ InterGen Archived 2008-08-05 at the Wayback Machine page on Callide. Retrieved 2008-05-18
- ^ Hines, Jasmine; Culliver, Paul (4 November 2022). "Callide Power Station in central Queensland completely offline". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ Loftus, Tobi; Culliver, Paul (1 November 2022). "'Structural failure' at Callide Power Station near Biloela leaves unit offline". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 4 November 2022.