Australia's Origin Energy adds 550MW with coal-fired plant

The second unit of the 550MW gas-fired Mortlake Power Station in Victoria has been commissioned, signalling its formal completion.

Origin Energy invested $810 million in the project, including the associated pipeline.

The 83km underground natural gas transmission pipeline is powered by natural gas sourced from Origin Energy's gas reserves in the Port Campbell area and processed at the firm's Otway Gas Plant.

The first unit of Mortlake was completed in January. The completion of the second unit pushed Origin Energy's total generation capacity up to 5,900MW of owned and contracted rights.

Origin Energy said it has designed Mortlake power station to provide flexibility to respond to future market conditions and has approval to expand its current capacity in the future.

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