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CAQA Powergen Station: simulated electricity generation workplace by CAQA
CAQA Powergen Station is a simulated electricity generation workplace created by CAQA for training and assessment against the Electricity Supply Industry - Generation Sector Training Package. Generating reliable power.
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CAQA Powergen Station is a registered generator in the National Electricity Market.
CAQA Powergen Station is a registered generator in the National Electricity Market. Its main asset is a 420 megawatt combined cycle gas turbine station at Newport West with two gas turbines, two heat recovery steam generators and a single steam turbine. The business also operates the 96 megawatt Ridgeback wind farm of 32 turbines in the Ararat district and a 28 megawatt hydro station fed by a concrete gravity dam in the Mitta Ranges. Together the three sites supply dispatchable and renewable energy to the grid and provide frequency control services to the market operator.
The business is organised around a central control room at Newport West that operates all three sites and is staffed by a unit controller and a field operator on every shift across a rotating roster of four panels. Maintenance is split into mechanical and electrical, control and instrumentation crews based at Newport West, with a renewables crew that travels to the wind farm and hydro station on a planned cycle. An outage planning team schedules major maintenance around market demand, and a health, safety, environment and quality team supports all sites.
Every person goes home safe every day. Energy is isolated and proven before anyone touches plant.
The grid depends on us being available when dispatched. Planned maintenance and honest defect reporting keep the units ready.
Emissions, water and waste are measured, reported and reduced, and licence limits are never treated as targets.
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Generating reliable powerCAQA Powergen Station, electricity generationServices and operationsCombined cycle generationWind generationHydro generation and dam operationPlant maintenanceOutage planning and commissioningGrid support servicesSix departments , one workplaceControl Room OperationsMechanical Maintenance