The State Electricity Commission of Victoria is a government-owned electricity company in Victoria, Australia. Originally established to generate electricity from the state's reserves of brown coal, t
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Sugarloaf Power Station, part of the Rubicon Scheme
Hazelwood Power Station
The modern Yallourn W plant
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Yallourn is a locality in the Latrobe Valley region of Victoria, Australia, 126 kilometres east of Melbourne, located within the City of Latrobe local government area. Yallourn was originally a compan
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…the substantial brown coal deposits in the Latrobe Valley. The Commissioners, soon renamed the SEC, constructed the first of many power stations at Yallourn, entered the distribution and retailing businesses, and gained regulatory powers over the electricity industry. By the 1970s, the SEC held a virtual…
Overview of Yallourn, 1948
Yallourn W Power Station led to the town's removal