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Kwinana Power Station is unique in WA in that it can burn three fuels, coal, gas and oil. Kwinana Power Station consists of four generating units and a 20MW capacity gas turbine. The station has a total generating capacity of 660MW or enough energy to light 6.6 million 100 watt globes.
It is connected by 66,000 volt, 132,000 volt and 330,000 volt transmission lines to the South West Interconnected System (SWIS) an area which stretches north to Kalbarri, south to Albany and east to Kalgoorlie.
Kwinana Power Station is located 40 kilometres south of Perth. It was officially opened on 20 November 1970 by the then Premier of WA, Sir David Brand. It was designed and constructed as an oil-fired power station, however due to increases in the world price of oil, it was converted to coal. Gas firing was later introduced and oil firing reintroduced in 2005.
Kwinana Power Station Stage B was closed in December 2008. Two high efficiency gas turbines (HEGTs) are being built and will be operating before the summer of 2011-12.
Coal Burning Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP)
In 2007, Verve Energy produced an Environmental Improvement Plan for Kwinana Power Station with consultation and input from the community, the environmental regulator (Department of Environment and Conservation) and our people at Kwinana Power Station. The result was a well-balanced, accountable and progressive plan to improve Kwinana Power Station’s environment performance with the continuation of coal burning at the power station.
Verve Energy has updated the EIP to further improve our environmental performance.
Of 15 priority action items identified in the first EIP, 13 have been carried out and the remaining two are in progress and are included in the second EIP.
In this 2009/10 EIP, Verve Energy has widened the scope to focus on issues for both Kwinana and Cockburn power stations. It covers all environmental issues, not just those associated with coal burning. Again, we are proud to develop this EIP to maintain the momentum of environmental preformance improvement.
The environmental issues in the 2009/10 EIP were identified as requiring priority attention by the community during its development phase. The action items were raised at two community workshops in April and June 2009.
The 2009/10 EIP commenced in December 2009 and will be reviewed internally on a monthly basis. In addition, the 2009/10 EIP Working Group will be asked to review progress in June and December 2010.
This second EIP will be released in March 2010.
To read the first EIP, click here.