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The Rubicon Hydroelectric Scheme is a small run-of-the-river hydroelectric scheme located on the Rubicon and Royston Rivers, north east of Melbourne, south-west of Alexandra, Victoria, Australia. The scheme commenced in 1922, and was the first state-owned hydroelectric scheme to generate electricity in mainland Australia, and among the first in the world to be remotely controlled.〔 For the first ten years of its operation it supplied on average 16.9% of electricity generated by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria.〔 It is now owned and operated by AGL Energy and contributes approximately 0.02% of Victoria's energy supply.〔(AGL - Rubicon Hydroelectric Scheme )〕 ==History== In the 1920s the State Electricity Commission of Victoria investigated hydroelectric power generation, in parallel with work on brown coal fired power stations at Yallourn. In 1922 a report was delivered by Messrs J.M. and H.E. Coane relating to the development of potential hydro-electric power on the Goulburn River and the Cerberean Range; their findings were then in turn submitted to the Parliament of Victoria for funding, with the more cost effective project〔 approved in 1922. Known as the Sugarloaf - Rubicon Project, the initial plan involved five power stations, with total turbine capacity of ; it would be the largest power scheme on the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission of Victoria's ongoing construction of Sugarloaf storage reservoir for irrigation. It is now called Lake Eildon. The four other power stations were situated with two on the Rubicon, one on the Royston, and one on Snobs Creek. These plans were later altered, the Snobs Creek station deleted, and an additional station provided at Rubicon Falls, bringing the installed turbine capacity to over .〔 The Sugarloaf Power Station generated electricity during the irrigation season from October to April, when water released from this dam could also be used for power generation. The other four power stations were used during the rainy seasons of winter and spring.〔 Work started in 1922, and by 1928 the mountain stream section of the project was complete, the Sugarloaf power station on the Eildon following in 1929. Rubicon 'A' power station has a pipeline with a drop over its length. This station also remotely controlled the other power stations in the project.〔 Minor enlargements were carried out at one station in 1954–55.〔 The Sugarloaf Power Station on the Goulburn River was replaced by the larger Eildon Power Station, and dam at the same site in the 1950s, with the turbines upgraded and reused.〔 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「Rubicon Hydroelectric Scheme」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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