Muja power station

Muja power station is 854 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station owned and operated by Verve Energy, a power utility owned by the Western Australian government.

The Muja power station, which was opened in 1966, comprises two 200MW generating units in Stage C and two 227MW units in Stage D.

On its website Verve Energy states that "the four smallest and least efficient units, Stages A and B, were closed in April 2007 These units could be refurbished and recommissioned by 2012 as an interim measure during the transition to clean technologies." (In 2006 the Western Australian Minister for Energy imposed a maximum power cap of 3,000 megawatts.

Coal for the power station is sourced from the Muja mine operated by Griffin Coal.

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