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Taurus on the move

27 April 2009 - Media Release

With the summer electricity load starting to drop, preparations are being made to move the Taurus T60 gas turbine generator at Ron Goodin Power Station to the new Owen Springs Power Station on the Brewer Estate, next month.

 

In 2007, the Board of Power and Water Corporation made a commitment to residents near Ron Goodin Power Station to relocate the two gas turbines, Taurus and Titan and not to install any new generators at Ron Goodin.

Power and Water also fitted a silencer to the 10MW Titan generator and has only run it when necessary during the high peak summer period to minimise noise. The Titan will be relocated next year.

The cost of the new Owen Springs Power Station and related network construction is $130 million.

Over the past two years, land has been acquired, negotiations held with Indigenous owners, statutory processes completed and a design, tender and construction process undertaken to build the new power station. In addition, the power station site needed to be raised more than a metre to secure it against the possibility of flooding.

The new network transmission system will comprise a new switchyard at Owen Springs Power Station, and an expanded switchyard at Lovegrove Zone Substation in Alice Springs. A $13.86m tender has just been awarded to Sitzler Bros to upgrade the Lovegrove Zone Substation and construct the Owen Springs Switchyard.

Included as part of the network system is two, 66kV transmission lines between the two switchyards. While the 66KV line between Owen Springs Power Station and Lovegrove Zone Substation has been completed as far as the Norris Bell area, the extension of this to the Lovegrove Zone Substation is currently under a process of consultation.

A pipeline and metering station to bring gas to the new power station has been completed at a cost of $8 million.

The remaining units at Ron Goodin Power Station will stay in service. As new generating units are added to Owen Springs (depending on demand growth), the remaining generating units at Ron Goodin will be progressively retired.

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