Poatina Power Station
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The Poatina Power Station is a conventional hydroelectric power station located in the Central Highlands, Tasmania, Australia. The power station is situated on the Great Lake and South Esk and is owned and operated by Hydro Tasmania.
Technical details
Located in the Great Lake and South Esk catchment area, Poatina makes use of a Script error: No such module "convert". descent from the Great Western Tiers to the Norfolk Plains in Tasmania's northern Midlands.[1][2] Water from Great Lake is diverted via a tunnel to the edge of the Great Western Tiers where it plummets down a viable penstock line, which enters the ground again near the power station. The Poatina Power Station is located Script error: No such module "convert". underground in a massive artificial cavern hence the name Poatina, Palawa for "cavern" or "cave". The headrace tunnel and penstocks were bored through mudstone with the aid of a Robbins Mole. Water leaves the power station via a roughly Script error: No such module "convert". long tailrace tunnel and discharges into the Macquarie River via Brumbies Rivulet.[3]
Poatina was commissioned in 1964, and replaced the Waddamana and Shannon power stations. The small construction village of Poatina sits perched on top of a low plateau, Script error: No such module "convert". from the stations subterranean location.[3][4]
The power station has six vertical shaft generating sets, five Boving Script error: No such module "convert". Pelton-type turbines of which three are upgraded Andritz turbines and one Fuji Script error: No such module "convert". Pelton-type turbine with a combined generating capacity of Script error: No such module "convert". of electricity. The station output, estimated at Script error: No such module "convert". annually,[5] is fed via underground circuit breakers to two 16 kV/110 kV and four 16 kV/220 kV generator transformers located in the switchyard above,[3] and then to TasNetworks' transmission grid at the Palmerston Substation Script error: No such module "convert". to the east. Two grid batteries at a combined 380 MW / 860 MWh are scheduled for the substation by 2027.[6][7]
2016 Tasmanian energy crisis
The Poatina output in early 2016 had dropped to one-fifth of capacity due to ongoing water shortage in Tasmania's hydro system.[8]
References
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