Hazelwood Switchyard

Hazelwood Switchyard is an electrical substation in City of Latrobe, Victoria. Hazelwood Switchyard is situated nearby to Hazelwood Power Station, as well as near the power station Hazlewood BESS.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hazelwood Power Station and Jeeralang Power Station.

Hazelwood Power Station

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The Hazelwood Power Station is a decommissioned brown-coal fuelled thermal power station located in the Latrobe Valley of Victoria, Australia. Built between 1964 and 1971, the 1,600-megawatt-capacity power station was made up of eight 200MW units, and supplied up to 25% of Victoria's base load electricity and more than 5% of Australia's total electricity demand. Hazelwood Power Station is situated 220 metres northwest of Hazelwood Switchyard.

Jeeralang Power Station

Power station

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Jeeralang Power Station is a gas turbine power station with a capacity of 460 megawatts near Morwell, Victoria, Australia. The station is a peaking facility which is used only during periods of peak demand, and is also used as a black start facility to restore power to the grid in the event of major system failure. Jeeralang Power Station is situated 3 km east of Hazelwood Switchyard.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Morwell and Churchill.

Morwell

Town

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Morwell is a town in the Latrobe Valley area of Gippsland, in South-Eastern Victoria, Australia approximately 152 km east of Melbourne. Morwell has a population of 14,389 people at the 2021 census. Morwell is situated 4 km north of Hazelwood Switchyard.

Churchill

Town

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Churchill is a town in the Latrobe Valley, located in central Gippsland in the east of Victoria, Australia. The town had a population of 4,924 at the 2021 census, and is part of the Latrobe City local government area. Churchill is situated 5 km southeast of Hazelwood Switchyard.

Hazelwood Switchyard

Type: Electrical substation
Category: industry
Location: City of Latrobe, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-38.27376° or 38° 16′ 26″ south

Longitude

146.39295° or 146° 23′ 35″ east

Open location code

4RH8P9GV+F5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 348778201

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