CAQA Powergen Station
Generating reliable power
CAQA Powergen Station is a registered generator in the National Electricity Market. Its main asset is a 420 megawatt combined cycle gas turbine station at Newport West with two gas turbines, two heat recovery steam generators and a single steam turbine. The business also operates the 96 megawatt Ridgeback wind farm of 32 turbines in the Ararat district and a 28 megawatt hydro station fed by a concrete gravity dam in the Mitta Ranges. Together the three sites supply dispatchable and renewable energy to the grid and provide frequency control services to the market operator.