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Telfer Gold Mine

Other power plant in Western Australia, Australia. Approximate location -21.7419, 122.1824.

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Telfer Gold Mine is a 147 MW other power station in Western Australia, Australia. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 110,376 homes (estimated). It ranks #113 of 512 Australia power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 150,990 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 35,196 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (38.6% low-carbon) (2025).

147MW installed capacity
110,376homes powered (est.)
150,990t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-6125.

150,990 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

35,196passenger cars driven for a year
19,691homes' yearly energy use
2,516,500tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest other plants in Australia

Sino Iron power station: 500 MW500Sino Iron …Ichthys LNG power station: 499 MW499Ichthys LN…Yarnima power station: 190 MW190Yarnima po…Telfer Gold Mine: 147 MW147Telfer Gol…South Hedland power station: 131 MW131South Hedl…

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

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 21.7°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

26.3°Cannual mean temp
9heating degree-days (base 18°C)
3,034cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
298 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 33 °CJF: 32 °CFM: 30 °CMA: 27 °CAM: 22 °CMJ: 18 °CJJ: 18 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 28 °CON: 31 °CND: 32 °CD33 °C

Heating degree-days here run 100% 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: 13/100 — 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 #4 largest other power plant of 5 in Australia by capacity.

Australia has 5 other power plants in this dataset, together about 1,467 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates -21.7419, 122.1824 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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