Brown coal behemoths: Victoria's power stations .
With no economic deposits of black coal found in Victoria, the use of brown coal for power generation commenced in 1924 under the auspices of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, with the opening of their first power station at Yallourn in the Latrobe Valley. With the low energy density making brown coal expensive to transport, the power station was built beside the open cut mine and ...
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