From Macquarie generation website:Macquarie Generation has...

From Macquarie generation website:

Macquarie Generation has lodged with the NSW Department of Planning a Major Project Application and Environmental Assessment for a baseload power station on the Bayswater B site. Under the NSW Government Energy Reform Strategy, the site is one of a number of development sites which is intended to be sold to the private sector. The application is for a 'dual fuel' power station development, which allows potential developers to choose whether the power station will be coal or gas-fired. The application also provides for inclusion of carbon capture and storage provisions in final power station design.

Macquarie Generation has received approval for two gas pipeline projects to supply mine waste methane gas as supplementary fuel to Liddell Power Station. The gas is to be collected from nearby Hunter Valley underground coal mines. The project provides mines with the means to dispose of methane gas, therefore reducing the greenhouse gas impact of the coal mining process and enables Macquarie Generation to then utilise the gas for electricity generation, further reducing greenhouse gas emissions.