Cockburn Power Station
Cockburn Power Station is a power station in Naval Base, Western Australia within the City of Kwinana. The station was commissioned by Western Power Corporation in 2003 and is immediately south of the closed Kwinana Power Station.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Power station
- Description: gas powered power station in Perth, Western Australia
- Also known as: “CKB”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kwinana Power Station and Perth Seawater Desalination Plant.
Kwinana Power Station
Power station
Photo: Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kwinana Power Station was Synergy's second-largest power station, located in Naval Base, Western Australia. At its peak, power was produced from six turbines driven by steam from boilers fired by coal, natural gas or fuel oil, and one gas turbine. Kwinana Power Station is situated 280 metres north of Cockburn Power Station.
Perth Seawater Desalination Plant
Photo: Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Perth Seawater Desalination Plant, located in Naval Base, south of Perth, Western Australia, turns seawater from Cockburn Sound into nearly 140 megalitres of drinking water per day, supplying the Perth metropolitan area. Perth Seawater Desalination Plant is situated 300 metres south of Cockburn Power Station.
Kwinana Energy Recovery
Power station
Photo: Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kwinana Energy Recovery is a waste-to-energy power station in Kwinana Beach, Western Australia. The facility is scheduled to process in excess of 400,000 tonnes of waste and will produce 36 MW of power. Kwinana Energy Recovery is situated 1 km south of Cockburn Power Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Naval Base and Kwinana Beach.
Naval Base
Suburb
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Naval Base is a coastal southwestern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Kwinana. It is a traditional industrial suburb in the Perth metropolitan region and contains a significant amount of heavy industry.
Kwinana Beach
Suburb
Photo: Grahame Bowland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kwinana Beach is an outer southwestern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Kwinana. It is one of the traditional industrial suburbs in the Perth metropolitan region. Kwinana Beach is situated 3 km south of Cockburn Power Station.
Postans
Locality
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Postans is an unpopulated suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Kwinana. The suburb is named after George Postans who was one of the first settlers in the area. Postans is situated 4 km southeast of Cockburn Power Station.
Cockburn Power Station
- Categories: combined cycle power station and industry
- Location: Kwinana, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-32.20084° or 32° 12′ 3″ southLongitude
115.77478° or 115° 46′ 29″ eastOperator
SynergyOpen location code
4PVQQQXF+MWOpenStreetMap ID
way 918098849OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q5139555
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In Other Languages
From Norwegian to Norwegian Bokmål—“Cockburn Power Station” goes by many names.
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cockburn gasskraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Cockburn gasskraftverk”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cockburn Power Station”. Photo: JarrahTree, CC0.