CS Energy uses black coal, natural gas, coal seam methane and landfill gas to fuel its power station portfolio.

We’ve increased the proportion of gas-fired generation in our portfolio since our formation in 1997 and we aim to have the most current technologies in both our coal and gas-fired plant.

Coal

We source coal through long-term agreements for our Kogan Creek, Callide and Swanbank power stations.

CS Energy owns the Kogan Mine that supplies coal to Kogan Creek Power Station. Golding Contractors operate the mine on behalf of CS Energy and delivers the coal to the station via a four kilometre conveyor belt.

Coal arrives at Callide Power Station by conveyor belt from the neighbouring Callide Mine, which is owned by a subsidiary of Anglo Coal Australia.

At Swanbank, coal is delivered by truck or rail from New Hope Coal Australia’s Acland open cut mine on the Darling Downs.

For more information on the Kogan Creek Mine, download the fact sheet.

Gas

In 2008/09, CS Energy provided more than 50 per cent of the gas-fired electricity generation in Queensland.

We have gas purchase agreements in place to supply existing gas-fired plant at Swanbank E and Mica Creek power stations.

Gas is delivered to Swanbank E via the Roma to Brisbane Pipeline from the following providers:

• Santos’ coal seam methane (CSM) field
• Queensland’s Gas Company’s Berwyndale South CSM field
• Mosaic’s conventional gas field near Wallumbilla, and
• The CS Energy/Arrow Energy CSM joint venture at Kogan North.

The coal-fired Swanbank B uses landfill gas as a supplementary fuel. The gas is piped from Thiess Services’ Swanbank Landfill.

CS Energy sources gas for Mica Creek from Santos’ south west Queensland fields, via the Carpenteria Gas Pipeline.

Further expanding our gas portfolio is one of CS Energy’s long-term strategies for reducing our carbon intensity.