Power Stations  

Authors / CoAuthors

Orr, K. | Skeers, N.

Abstract

This point dataset contains the major power stations in Australia including all those that feed into the electricity transmission network.

Product Type

dataset

eCat Id

82326

Contact for the resource

Digital Object Identifier

http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/25/544EE47D2C1DE

Keywords

• Database

( Theme )

• National dataset

( Theme )

• substations

( Theme )

• power stations

( Theme )

• transmission lines

( Theme )

• transmission towers

( Theme )

• electricity

( Theme )

• zones

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

• Earth Sciences

( Theme )

• DC2020

• Published_External

• HVC_144652

Publication Date

2014-01-01T00:00:00

Creation Date

Security Constraints

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem    

Classification - unclassified

Legal Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence    

Access - license

Use - license

Status

Purpose

Maintenance Information

asNeeded

Topic Category

geoscientificInformation

Series Information

Lineage

The power station points were digitized in 2011 from the library of imagery held within Geoscience Australia. Imagery used ranged from 0.15m resolution aerial photos to 2.5m resolution satellite images. A complete revision was completed in January 2014. Source Information; Primary information sources used to identify and attribute the power stations came from internal Geoscience Australia (GA) data and annually released and publicly available publications. For Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, the contents of this dataset directly reflect the power stations present on the January 2012 Australian Energy Market (AEMO) network diagrams and the 14 February 2013 scheduled, semi-scheduled and non-scheduled power station lists (available from www.aemo.com.au). These diagrams and lists are released annually as part of the National Transmission Development Plan. For Western Australia (WA), all renewable and non-renewable generation facilities reported in the 2010 Energy Generation Tables and the 2010 Energy Resources and Infrastructure Map available on the Western Australian Department of Finance Public Utilities Office webpage (http://www.finance.wa.gov.au/cms/content.aspx?id=13676) were captured. For south west Western Australia (WA), the points also reflect the power station data available from Western Power's Online Network Capacity Mapping Tool. (http://www.westernpower.com.au/ldd/ncmtoverview.html) In the Northern Territory (NT), the major generation facilities that are reported in the annual Northern Territory's Utilities Commission report entitled 2010-11 Power System Review (http://www.nt.gov.au/ntt/utilicom/publications/reports_publications.shtml) were captured. Several smaller facilities (<5 MW) mentioned in the report, that are located in remote communities, were not captured because due to insufficient publicly available information. These primary information sources were supplemented with online, publicly available information from utility companies, power station owners/operators, engineering firms and government agencies.

Parent Information

Extents

[-42.88826, -12.38917, 113.533955, 153.43411]

Reference System

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Service Information

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