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The East Perth Power Station is a disused power station located in East Perth, Western Australia.The site consists of a complex of industrial buildings occupying more than 8.5 hectares, bounded by East Parade, Summers Street, the Swan River and the Graham Farmer Freeway. ==History== The Power Station was constructed between 1913 and 1916 by the Western Australian State Government, which announced that the facility would generate all the electricity needed in the Perth Metropolitan area. The site of East Perth was chosen because coal could easily be delivered there by rail and because the enormous quantities of cooling water required by the condensing plant could easily be drawn from the Swan River. Construction was completed at a total cost of £538,000.〔East Perth Redevelopment Authority, (Fact Sheet )〕 In the 1920s, 1930s and 1950s new power generators were added to the facility to meet the city's growing demand for power. By 1948 the station had an array of power generating sources.〔p.261 of Tait's electrical Directory of Australia and New Zealand, 12th Edition, 1948, Tait Publishing, Melbourne, Vic.: 3 International Combustion boilers, 10 Babcock and Wilcox marine type boilers; as well as Green's economisers and Parson's turbo-alternators 〕 In 1968 the station converted from coal to oil, but six years later returned to coal firing. The station was decommissioned and closed in December 1981, as more advanced and cheaper methods of electricity generation made the facility redundant.〔 The East Perth Power Station is considered to be one of the State's most significant industrial heritage buildings.〔East Perth Redevelopment Authority, (East Perth Power Station )〕 It includes a range of remnant machinery and equipment that is believed to be unique in the world because it contains the five different stages of power generation technology that occurred in the 20th century.〔〔 Archer, J. C. A brief history of the development of East Perth Power Station. 1982. "Prepared under the auspices of the Engineering Heritage Sub-Committee of the Institution of Engineers, Australia - Western Australia Division". 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「East Perth Power Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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