Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Save a Power Station - Thermal Station Heritage in Australia
- In
- Engineering Heritage Victoria, Speakers Programme
- Imprint
- 14 August 2014
- Url
- https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/Event/save-power-station-thermal-station-heritage-australia
- Abstract
Thermal power stations have been a key part of the electricity supply industry in Australia since the earliest days of the industry in 1882. Power Stations are useful only as long as the technology of their machinery is fit for purpose. The technology becomes obsolete or worn out after typically 25 to 50 years. Power stations are typically destroyed when they are no longer needed to fulfil a useful commercial purpose and hence very few early examples survive. The industry needs to take care that a representative sample of examples of each era of technology is preserved for posterity.
The objective of the presentation is to identify the Top Ten remaining power station sites in Australia which have or which at some time may acquire engineering heritage significance. These range from sites which are still in operation to some which are retired but essentially complete to fragments of machinery and vacant buildings.
The presentation will provide practicing engineers with some guidance on how to assess significance with respect to thermal power stations.