Loy Yang Power Station
City of Latrobe, Australia
The 169th largest power station in the world
The Loy Yang Power Station is a brown coal-fired thermal power station located on the outskirts of the city of Traralgon, in south-eastern Victoria, Australia. It consists of two sections, known as Loy Yang A (4 units) and Loy Yang B (2 units). Both Loy Yang A and B are supplied by the Loy Yang brown coal mine. The Loy Yang power stations are located in the brown coal rich Latrobe Valley, along with the Yallourn Power Station. If Loy Yang A and Loy Yang B are counted together, they are the largest power station in Australia, generating 3280 MW of power (however, if counted separately, the 2, 880 MW Eraring Power Station is the largest). Loy Yang A & B are base load power stations, and together produced 22 TWh in 2025, or about 43% of Victoria's electricity requirements and 10% of the National Electricity Market. Loy Yang also serves as the mainland connection point for the Basslink electricity interconnector cable which runs under Bass Strait, connecting it to the George Town sub-station in northern Tasmania. In 2024, Loy Yang was named as a candidate site for the development of a nuclear power plant as part of then-opposition leader Peter Dutton's energy policy plans.
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