Liddell Power Station

Liddell Power Station is owned by Macquarie Generation a government-owned business which was established in 1996 and boasts that it is "Australia's largest electricity generator."

The Liddell Power Station was commissioned between 1971 and 1973 and generates 2,000 megawatts from four 500MW generating units. Water is supplied from Lake Liddell. The power station consumes approximately 5.5 million tonnes of black coal per year.

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