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Kangaroo Island Power Station

South Australia, Australia

The 3440th largest power station in the world

6 MW · Capacity

The Kangaroo Island power station is a set of diesel generators located at the Kingscote substation at Brownlow KI on Kangaroo Island. It consists of three 2MWe Caterpillar 3516B generators capable of providing a combined 6 MW of power. Owned and operated by SA Power Networks, it is used to provide stability of supply if both of the submarine power cables to the mainland are unavailable.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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