Lemonthyme Power Station
| Parangana Dam | ||
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Annual generation 313 gigawatt-hours (1,130 TJ) | | |
| Website hydro | ||
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The Lemonthyme Power Station is a
Technical details
The Parangana Dam forms Lake Parangana by damming the Mersey River. Water from the lake is diverted west to Lemonthyme Power Station via a 6.5-kilometre (4.0 mi)-long tunnel, followed by a 1.6-kilometre (0.99 mi) single surface penstock.[2] The water then runs through the power station, and is discharged into the River Forth, then down to Lake Cethana.
The power station was commissioned in 1969 by the
Although much of the water from Lake Parangana travels the approximately 8 km to the Lemonthyme Power Station (which discharges into the River Forth), some water is allowed to continue down the Mersey River for environmental reasons, after running through the Parangana mini hydro station.
See also
References
- ^ "Register of Large Dams in Australia". Dams information. Australian National Committee on Large Dams. 2010. Archived from the original (Excel (requires download)) on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ "Mersey - Forth". Energy. Hydro Tasmania. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ "Lemonthyme Power Station: Technical fact sheet" (PDF). Mersey-Forth Catchment. Hydro Tasmania. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 June 2023. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
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