Bendeela (Shoalhaven Scheme) is a 240 MW hydro power station in New South Wales, Australia. It ranks #89 of 536 Australia power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 4.3% of Australia's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (38.6% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id AUS0000266.
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The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 240 MW, Bendeela (Shoalhaven Scheme) is well above the median hydro plant in Australia (45 MW). Technically it is described as pumped storage. Its current lifecycle status is “Pre Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Hydropower converts the energy of falling or flowing water into electricity; output depends on rainfall and reservoir level, and large dams also provide grid balancing and storage.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #10 largest hydro power plant of 73 in Australia by capacity.
Australia has 73 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 8,878 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -34.7337, 150.4669 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Bendeela (Shoalhaven Scheme) is a 240 MW hydro power plant in New South Wales, Australia, Pre Construction 1977.
