The NewGen Power Station is being constructed in Kwinana, approximately 30 kilometres south of Perth. When completed the $400 million, 320MW plant will provide electricity into the South-West Interconnected System (SWIS), Western Australia’s main electricity grid. The project results from the successful bid in 2005 by developers Wambo Power Ventures, an equal partnership between ERM Group and Babcock & Brown for the supply of base-load power to Western Power Corporation under a 25 year contract for the SWIS.

The power from NewGen Kwinana Power Station will be sold to WPC’s electricity retail successor entity, Synergy. The combined cycle gas-fired baseload power station will provide low cost, environmentally sustainable electricity to Western Australia utilising gas from the North-West Shelf delivered through the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline.

Design, supply, construction and commissioning of the NewGen Kwinana Power Station is being undertaken by Alstom Power on a turnkey basis with the proejct management provided by ERM Consultants Pty Ltd. The power station will consist of one Alstom GT13E2 gas turbine, a heat recovery steam generator (with supplementary gas firing), steam turbine, condenser, step up transformers, plant control systems, HV switchyard, plus civil works and balance of plant.

Construction of the NewGen Kwinana Power Station is to be completed in the second half of 2008.