Hydro power plants in Australia

68 hydro power plants in Australia, totalling 8,405 MW of installed capacity — ranked by size, from open data.

#	Plant	Region	MW
1	Tumut 3	New South Wales	1,800
2	Murray 1	New South Wales	950
3	Tumut 1 (Upper Tumut)	New South Wales	616
4	Murray 2	New South Wales	550
5	Wivenhoe Hydroelectric	Queensland	500
6	Gordon	Tasmania	432
7	Tumut 2 (Upper Tumut)	New South Wales	336
8	Bogong (Mount Beauty Hydro Scheme)	Victoria	300
9	Reece	Tasmania	244
10	Kangaroo Valley (Shoalhaven Scheme)	New South Wales	160
11	Dartmouth (Mount Beauty Hydro Scheme)	Victoria	150
12	McKay Creek (Mount Beauty Hydro Scheme)	Victoria	150
13	John Butters	Tasmania	145
14	Tungatinah	Tasmania	142
15	Eildon	Victoria	120
16	Poatina	Tasmania	100
17	Tribute	Tasmania	92
18	Kareeya	Queensland	88
19	Liapootah	Tasmania	87
20	Lemonthyme	Tasmania	82
21	Wilmot	Tasmania	82
22	Bastyan	Tasmania	81
23	Blowering	New South Wales	80
24	Trevallyn	Tasmania	80
25	Mackintosh	Tasmania	80
26	West Kiewa (Mount Beauty Hydro Scheme)	Victoria	62
27	Barron Gorge	Queensland	60
28	Devils Gate	Tasmania	60
29	Guthega	New South Wales	60
30	Hume	New South Wales	58
31	Catagunya	Tasmania	50
32	Warragamba	New South Wales	50
33	Fisher	Tasmania	46
34	Wayatinah	Tasmania	45
35	Meadowbank	Tasmania	44
36	Clover	Victoria	38
37	Lake Echo	Tasmania	32
38	Paloona	Tasmania	32
39	Ord River	Western Australia	30
40	Repulse	Tasmania	29
41	Burrinjuck Power Station	New South Wales	27
42	Copeton	New South Wales	24
43	Wyangala A	New South Wales	20
44	Burrendong	New South Wales	19
45	Cluny	Tasmania	17
46	Butlers Gorge	Tasmania	14
47	Jounama	New South Wales	14
48	Lower Rubicon	Victoria	14
49	Rubicon	Victoria	14
50	Banimboola	Victoria	12
51	Rowallan	Tasmania	10
52	Yarrawonga	Victoria	9
53	Upper Lake Margaret	Tasmania	8
54	Koombooloomba	Queensland	7
55	Pindari	New South Wales	7
56	Lake Keepit	New South Wales	6
57	Brown Mountain	New South Wales	5
58	Eildon Small Hydro	Victoria	5
59	Oaky	New South Wales	5
60	Wivenhoe	Queensland	5
61	Lake Glenmaggie	Victoria	4
62	Lower Lake Margaret	Tasmania	3
63	Terminal Storage	South Australia	2
64	The Drop	New South Wales	2
65	Nieterana	Tasmania	2
66	Lake William Hovell	Victoria	2
67	Tods Corner	Tasmania	2
68	Jindabyne Dam Mini Hydro	New South Wales	1

WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Lifecycle and source reconciliation

This page contains 73 positive-capacity records totalling 8,878.2 MW. Lifecycle labels, capacity scope and capacity-quality provenance are kept separate so a source-backed capacity is not mistaken for a verified operating status.

40records with a resolvable source link

33records without a retained record-level link

Lifecycle labels in this page slice

Status	Records
Mothballed	1
Not Reported	29
Operating	39
Unclassified	4

Capacity provenance quality

Quality label	Records
current source verified gem operating units 2026	6
legacy source record not current verified	33
source verified gem tracker location 2026	30
source verified wikidata p2109 strict match	4

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