Mortlake Power Station Project

(formerly known as the Victorian Generator Project)

Overview

On 4 July 2008, the Origin Board announced its commitment to proceed with the construction of a 550 megaWatt (MW) gas fired power station located 12km west of Mortlake in western Victoria. The Mortlake Power Station will help to meet the growing and future demand for electricity in Australia.

The power station will be constructed on approximately 20 hectares of land with an extensive buffer zone around it.

Properties surrounding the proposed site are large landholdings, with the nearest resident approximately 2 km from the site. The area is used for grazing land and timber plantations.

Although approvals have been gained for approximately 1,000 MW, the Mortlake Power Station will be built in two stages adjacent to the existing Moorabool to Heywood 500 kV high voltage transmission line. The plant will be supplied with natural gas via a 83 km dedicated underground natural gas transmission pipeline from the new gas processing plant being built near Port Campbell, as part of the offshore Otway Gas Project.

As a joint venture partner in the Otway Gas Project, our recent gas discoveries provide a real opportunity to develop a natural gas-fired power station that will:

  • Provide least cost new-entrant electricity generation
  • Minimise environmental impact
  • Provide an alternative to coal-fired generation in the National Electricity Market, and
  • Enhance system reliability and security.

Final investment decision (FID)

The final investment decision to proceed to project construction has now been granted. This investment decision has been contingent upon a number of factors such as the forecast supply and demand in the national electricity market (NEM) and the impact of Government policy in relation to emissions (eg emissions trading schemes).

Project area

Power station map

For more information, please contact:
Yvette Reade
Public Relations Manager
E-mail: vicgen@originenergy.com.au

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