Leichhardt Power Station is a 60 MW

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near

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in the Australian state of

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. The gas-fired power station was completed in 2014 and is capable of operating on diesel if gas is not available. It contains a single Rolls-Royce Trent 60 gas turbine. It is adjacent to the larger

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Diamantina Power Station Diamantina Power Station is a combined-cycle gas turbine electricity generation plant in Mount Isa, Queensland. It was developed by APA Group and AGL Energy at a cost of $570 million. Siemens Energy supplied two blocks each with one steam turbin ...

for which it provides backup. The power station was built under an engineering, procurement and construction contract by

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. Mount Isa is not on the

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, but does have piped natural gas from production in southern Queensland supplied via the

Carpentaria Gas Pipeline The Carpentaria Gas Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline connecting the gas fields to the city of Mount Isa in Queensland, Australia. It is long between the Ballera gas plant in the Eromanga Basin in southwestern Queensland and Mount Isa, a signif ...

. Both Diamantina and Leichhardt power stations are owned by

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. APA Group bought out its 50% equity partner

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on 31 March 2016 for . It retained the long-term gas supply contract with AGL.

References

{{Energy in Queensland Natural gas-fired power stations in Queensland 2014 establishments in Australia Mount Isa Energy infrastructure completed in 2014