Country Australia Purpose Power Opening date 1971 (1971) Height 43 m Length 171 m Owner Hydro Tasmania | Location Northern Tasmania Status Operational Type of dam Embankment dam Opened 1971 Catchment area 759 km² Impound Forth River | |
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Similar Cethana Power Station, Devils Gate Power Station, Rowallan Power Station, Meadowbank Power Station, Liapootah Power Station | ||
The Paloona Power Station is a conventional hydroelectric power station located in northern Tasmania, Australia.
Technical details
Part of the Mersey–Forth scheme that comprises eight hydroelectric power stations, the Paloona Power Station is the final station in the scheme. The power station is located immediately below the rock-filled concrete faced Paloona Dam which forms Lake Paloona. Water from the lake is fed to the power station by a short single penstock under the dam.
The power station was commissioned in 1972 by the Hydro Electric Corporation (TAS) and the station has one Fuji Kaplan turbine, with a generating capacity of 30 megawatts (40,000 hp) of electricity. The station output, estimated to be 151 gigawatt-hours (540 TJ) annually, is fed to TasNetworks' transmission grid via an 11 kV/110 kV Siemens generator transformer to the outdoor switchyard.