What coal-powered thermal power station is in a town about 243 km north of Sydney.
Liddell Power Station Liddell Power Station is a coal-powered thermal power station with four 500 MW GEC (UK) steam driven turbo alternators for a combined electrical capacity of 2000 MW . Commissioned between 1971 and 1973, the station is located at Lake Liddell near Muswellbrook, in the Hunter Region, New South Wales, Australia.
Illawarra Coal Measures The Illawarra Coal Measures is a group of sedimentary rocks occurring in the Sydney Basin in eastern Australia. This stratum is up to 150 metres thick. Formed in the late Permian, it comprises shale, quartz-lithic sandstone, conglomerate rocks, chert, with sporadically carbonaceous mudstone, coal and seams of torbanite. Coal mining of these measures remains a significant commercial enterprise to the present day. One of the abandoned coal mines in the Blue Mountains is now a tourist attraction.