A map of major urban areas, coal-fired power stations and mines in the Latrobe Valley.The first to Melbourne were generated and distributed by a number of and municipal generator and distribution companies. The main municipal-owned in Victoria was operated by the, which generated electricity from its, which opened in 1892, for the city’s residents, as well as being a wholesale supplier to other municipal distributors. The main privately owned company was the which was established in 1899. The company operated the, which had been opened in 1891, and the. It operated under franchise arrangements with a number of municipal distributors. The final major generator of electricity was the which in 1918 opened the, the largest power station in the urban area, to supply electricity as part of the. These early generators all relied on fuel supplies from the strike prone black coal industry of.Early electricity production in Victoria used relatively simple technology, but transmission over even a short distance was difficult.

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Initially, it was used only for public events - such as the Duke of Edinburgh's visit in 1867 and a night football match at the MCG in 1879 - and lighting in the theatre. Small scale generating plants were built in Melbourne to serve small areas and industries. However, gas remained the fuel for street lighting in Melbourne until 1894, after the construction of the Spencer Street power station by the Melbourne City Council. This power station generated enough power to light Melbourne's streets. Other councils embraced Melbourne's initiative and streets in many nearby areas - such as Richmond, Essendon, Hawthorn and South Yarra - were also lit by electricity by the late 1890s. Some Councils set up their own distribution networks, including Footscray (1911), Brunswick (1912–13), Port Melbourne (1912–13), Preston (1912), Nunawading (1912), Northcote (1912), Coburg (1914), Heidelberg (1914), Williamstown (1915–16) and Doncaster (1916).The (SECV) was formed in 1921 to merge these small operations.

In the 1920s the SECV investigated power generation, in parallel with work on fired power stations at. In 1922 a report was delivered by Messrs J.M. Coane relating to the development of potential hydro-electric power on the and the Cerberean Range; their findings were then in turn submitted to the for funding, with the more cost effective project approved in 1922, and the commenced in that year. For the first ten years of its operation it supplied on average 16.9% of electricity generated by the SECV.The SECV took over a number of small municipal electricity distributors during the 1920s, and in the 1930s the was acquired along with its street tramway operations. Despite these acquisitions, municipal controlled distribution companies known as Municipal Electricity Undertakings (MEUs) in the inner urban areas of Melbourne remained outside of SECV control until the privatisation of the industry in the 1990s.The first electric tram in Melbourne was built in 1889 by the Box Hill and Doncaster Tramway Company Limited, an enterprise which failed in 1896.

Electric trams returned in 1906, with the opening of the ' ' from to, and was followed in the same year with the opening of the (NMETL) system, which opened two lines from the cable tram terminus at Flemington Bridge to and Saltwater River (now ). The NMELT was an electricity and tramway company that operated from 1906 to 1922. The electricity section was taken over by the SECV in 1922.

The was formed in 1919 and took over all cable and electric trams in Melbourne. The MMTB extended the electric lines, and from 1924 progressively converted the existing cable system to electric traction.

By 1940 all Melbourne cable tram had been converted to electric traction. The electrification of the took place in the 1920s.The SECV built the open cut mine in the and opened the first of many fired power stations in the Latrobe Valley. Was built progressively from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Since then the SECV opened two more open cut mines in the valley, feeding power stations at and.The responsibilities of the SECV were privatised between 1995 and 1999. In 1936, Geelong was connected to the state, and by the 1960s Geelong A had closed. Geelong B remained for a few more years being used for peak loads only, but closed in 1970 due to the much higher efficiency of the new power stations in the Latrobe Valley.

Richmond power station closed in 1976 and Spencer Street power station closed in 1982. Newport power station closed in the 1980s. Hazelwood power station closed in 2017.Coal fuelled generators. Yallourn W Power Station viewed from the southAt present, most electricity in Victoria is generated by burning in thermal power stations in the.

One of the major electricity consumers in Victoria is the at.Unlike many other states, the major coalfields of Victoria contain brown coal. The high water content of this coal makes it less suited for combustion without specialised technology. As a result, in the early years of Victoria the state was dependent on imports from for its fuel needs. In general, brown coal sourced from the Latrobe valley has a low ash content. The ash constituents varies significantly across the region but various silicates and oxides (Mg, Fe, Al, Ca and Na) are typical.In the 1920s the coalfields began to be exploited for power generation.Additional brown coal reserves were at, and, and black coal in the in. Both the Altona and Strzelecki Ranges coalfields were small in size, and required underground mining. Production in these mines increased into the early 20th century.

The Anglesea coalfield has been mined for Alcoa's since the 1960s, before both the power station and coalfield were shut in 2015.In 2013-14, the Latrobe Valley produced 98.5% of Australia’s total brown coal production at 57.8 Mt, down from 66.7 Mt in 2001-2Brown coal has 3 times the and causing GHG emissions per KWh of electricity produced as natural gas. Hazelwood was commonly regarded as the most greenhouse gas polluting power station in Australia, but has now been closed by its owner for economic reasons. If as is expected after the release of the report of the a is adopted to reduce the, electricity produced by burning brown coal will be expected to increase significantly in price.An open cut mine for Hazelwood power plant caught fire, shrouding residents in Morwell with coal dust for about a month.Coal mines in Victoria currently operating:MineLocationOwnerLat & LongType of CoalTons Mined PAMajor BuyersMajor MethodYallourn?Lignite?Open CutMorwell?Lignite?,Open CutLoy Yang 'A'AGL Loy Yang?Lignite?Open CutHydro. Main article:Trials of in Victoria commenced in 1987, when the State Electricity Commission of Victoria erected a 60 kW capacity Westwind at as a demonstration project. The generator was sold to a private group in 1994 with the of the SECV. It was not until the early 2000s that the commercial use of wind power for electricity commenced.

Wind farms at, and were all built by private companies with State Government funding assistance.By October 2011 there were eight operating wind farms with 428MW of capacity. The development of new wind farms in Victoria became much harder following the election of the Baillieu government who amended the planning scheme in August 2011 to give any landholder within two kilometres a power of veto over a project. Archived from on 7 October 2008.

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