Proposed Spring Gully Power Station
The proposed Power Station
Origin Energy has gained the Queensland Government’s Coordinator General’s recommendation develop a nominal 1000 MW coal seam gas fired Power Station at Spring Gully, 80 km north of Roma in central Queensland. If the final approvals are gained from the Bungil Shire Council, the first 500 MW stage would allow Origin to meet the current forecast demand for electricity generation capacity expected in 2008 and beyond.The power station would be configured as a high efficiency combined cycle plant utilising a combination of gas turbine and steam turbine power generation technologies. The new power station would emit half the greenhouse gases of a black coal fired station of comparable size.
Fuel for the power station would be provided from the adjacent Spring Gully Coal Seam Gas (CSG) gas plant. Cooling water would be sourced from the saline water produced by the CSG process. The co-location of the power station with the CSG development provides synergies that enhance the economic and environmental performance of the whole Spring Gully project. The opportunity to develop a low cost natural gas-fired power station would also enhance system reliability and security, and diversifies the generation fuel mix in Queensland.
Queensland showing location of Roma and Spring Gully site
Proposed Spring Gully Power Station site location
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