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Pelican Point Power Station

Pelican Point Power Station is one of Australia’s most efficient and environmentally friendly. It is designed and operated to have minimum impact on the environment.

Pelican Point has comprehensive systems in place to ensure compliance with South Australian Environment Protection Authority (EPA) requirements. It was the first power station in South Australia to attain certification of its environmental practices to ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Standard.

Pelican Point Power Station produces only about one third of the carbon dioxide produced by a similar size brown-coal power station, and about two-thirds of the carbon dioxide of a similar gas-fired thermal power station.

Pelican Point Power Station’s average weekly water discharges into the Port River measure 0.050C higher at the edge of the mixing zone (a 50 metre radius). This is well within the licence requirement of no more than 20C higher. Pelican Point Power Station’s storm water run-off and drains from the pre-treatment and water treatment plant, are recycled and used for irrigation purposes on site.

There is an on-going environmental audit at Pelican Point Power Station that contributes to continual improvement. The power station holds regular meetings with the EPA and participates in the Port Adelaide and Enfield Environmental Forums.

Since construction, Pelican Point Power Station has planted 85,000 native trees and shrubs, many with the assistance of local schools. The plantings have a survivial rate of approximately 80 per cent. What was once a desolate area of reclaimed land used as an unofficial local dump is now a landscaped peninsula.

Pelican Point Power Station is a signatory to the Electricity Supply Association of Australia’s Code of Environmental Practice.  The Code requires business commitment to support and implement the policies, principles and actions related to sustainable development, social responsibility, community participation, environmental management and resource management.

  

 Managing the environment

Conducting an environmental audit