Parangana Power Station

Parangana Dam
Parangana Power Station is located in Tasmania
Parangana Power Station
Location of the Parangana Dam in Tasmania
CountryAustralia
LocationNorth-western Tasmania
Coordinates41°37′48″S 146°13′12″E / 41.63000°S 146.22000°E / -41.63000; 146.22000
PurposePower
StatusOperational
Opening date1968 (1968)
Owner(s)Hydro Tasmania
Dam and spillways
Type of damEmbankment dam
ImpoundsMersey River
Height53 metres (174 ft)
Length189 metres (620 ft)
Dam volume382 thousand cubic metres (13.5×10^6 cu ft)
Spillways1
Spillway typeUncontrolled
Spillway capacity2,093 cubic metres per second (73,900 cu ft/s)
Reservoir
CreatesLake Parangana
Total capacity14,820 megalitres (523×10^6 cu ft)
Catchment area715 square kilometres (276 sq mi)
Surface area11.4 hectares (28 acres)
Parangana Power Station
Operator(s)Hydro Tasmania
Commission date2002 (2002)
TypeM
Hydraulic head35 metres (115 ft)
Turbines1 x 0.75 MW (1,010 hp)
Tyco Tamar Francis turbine
Installed capacity0.75 megawatts (1,010 hp)
Capacity factor0.81
Website
hydro.com.au/energy/our-power-stations/mersey-forth
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The Parangana Power Station is a mini-hydro power station located in north-western Tasmania, Australia. It is located below the rock-filled/clay core Parangana Dam which forms Lake Parangana.[2] It is the only mini hydro electric power station in the MerseyForth run-of-river scheme that also contains seven conventional hydroelectric power stations.

The power station was commissioned in 2002 by Hydro Tasmania. It has one Tyco Tamar Francis turbine, with a generating capacity of 0.85 megawatts (1,140 hp) of electricity.[3]

Much of the water from Lake Parangana travels the approximately 8 km to the Lemonthyme Power Station which discharges into the River Forth, however some water is allowed to continue down the Mersey River for environmental reasons, after running through the Parangana mini hydro station.

  1. ^ "Register of Large Dams in Australia". Dams information. Australian National Committee on Large Dams. 2010. Archived from the original (Excel (requires download)) on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Mersey - Forth". Energy. Hydro Tasmania. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Parangana Power Station: Technical fact sheet" (PDF). Mersey-Forth Catchment. Hydro Tasmania. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.