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Loy Yang A Power Station

Loy Yang A Power Station is a brown coal fired power station located on the outskirts of the city of Traralgon, in south eastern Victoria, Australia. Loy Yang A comprises four generating units with a combined capacity of 2200 megawatts and is owned by GEAC, a consortium made up of AGL Limited, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Transfield Services and three superannuation funds.

MBD Energy Limited has reached agreement with Loy Yang A to build a CO2 to Energy Algal Synthesiser that will see flue-gas emissions captured and converted into abundant algal biomass for downstream uses including biofuels and animal feeds.

The brown coal used in the power station’s furnaces is mined on land adjacent to Loy Yang. It is estimated that at current rates of extraction there are sufficient deposits of coal in the entire Latrobe Valley region to last 1300 years.

In March 2010 Loy Yang Power announced it had signed a contract with Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals Australia for the supply of electricity to power aluminium smelters at Portland and Point Henry until 2036.