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A plan to restore Wellington hydro-plant for green electricity

Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 posted by posted by Mak @ 8:27 PM

The National Trust wants the old Wellington Hydro-Electric Power Station restored and recommissioned to generate clean electricity. A plan to restore the defunct Wellington Hydro-Electric Power Station includes re-commissioning the 52-year-old plant to generate enough “green” electricity to power the nearby coal-mining town of Collie, the National Trust has revealed.Estimates showed it could generate about 9600 megawatts an hour of electricity from a minimum 200 days or more if water was released more often.

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