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The Hazelwood Power Station is a brown coal-fuelled base-load thermal power station located in the Latrobe Valley of Victoria, Australia. Built between 1964 and 1971, the 1,600-megawatt-capacity power station supplies up to 25% of Victoria's base load electricity and more than 5% of Australia's total energy demand.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hazelwood Power Station, Australia )〕 It is a "subcritical" Pulverized coal-fired boiler.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Fossil Energy in Australia )〕 Hazelwood produces 2.8% of Australia's CO2 emissions and 0.057% of world emissions. The station was listed as the least carbon efficient power station in the OECD in a 2005 report by WWF Australia, making it one of the most polluting power stations in the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Hazelwood tops international list of dirty power stations )〕 International Power plc purchased Hazelwood from the Victorian Government in 1996 with a 40-year life. The Bracks Labor Government subsequently approved an environmental effects statement in 2005 that allowed Hazelwood to move a road and a river to access the coal allocated to Hazelwood at the time of sale. There is an estimated 500 years of easily accessed coal reserves remaining in Victoria's Latrobe Valley. In late 2008, International Power stated the financial viability of the power station would be in question under an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), unless the company received significant compensation. The Hazelwood Power Station and adjoining mine is now jointly owned by GDF SUEZ Australian Energy, a subsidiary of GDF Suez, with a 72 per cent share and Mitsui & Co. with a 28 per cent share.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Hazelwood Power Station & Mine )〕 , Hazelwood directly employed over 500 full-time staff and at least another (full-time) 300 contractors, with hundreds more employed during scheduled major outages.〔 ==History== Development of the brown coal reserves at Morwell was started by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV) in 1949 as the 'Morwell Project', which included the Morwell open cut mine, and the Morwell briquette works. The Morwell Interconnecting Railway linked the power station and briquette works to the Yallourn open cut mine until 1993. Hazelwood Power Station was approved in 1959, and was to consist of six generating units, giving a total of 1,200 MW of generating capacity. The first unit was to enter service in 1964, and the sixth in 1971. Growing electricity demand saw a review carried out by the SECV in 1963, with commissioning of the generating units moved forward to 1969. Additional capacity was provided when in 1965 two additional generating units at Hazelwood were approved, to be commissioned in 1970 and 1971 respectively. Steam is supplied by 8 Babcock & Wilcox natural circulation water tube boilers at 10,400kPa and 540degC. 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「Hazelwood Power Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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