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Nine Network

Oil power plant in New South Wales, Australia. Approximate location -33.811, 151.1966.

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Nine Network is a 3 MW oil power plant in New South Wales, Australia. It is operated by Nine Network. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,402 homes (estimated). It ranks #438 of 512 Australia power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 2.2% of Australia's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (38.6% low-carbon) (2025).

3MW installed capacity
2,402homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id AUS0000316.

~6,307 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,470passenger cars driven for a year
823homes' yearly energy use
105,120tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest oil plants in Australia

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Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Nine Network.

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 33.8°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

17.8°Cannual mean temp
603heating degree-days (base 18°C)
528cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
29 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 22 °CJF: 23 °CFM: 21 °CMA: 19 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 13 °CJJ: 12 °CJA: 13 °CAS: 15 °CSO: 18 °CON: 19 °CND: 22 °CD23 °C

Heating degree-days here run 75% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 22/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #26 largest oil power plant of 46 in Australia by capacity.

Australia has 46 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 1,476 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates -33.811, 151.1966 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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