Coal and clay from Huntly - Roadside Stories
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- The coal seams around Huntly have been mined since the 1870s, and today provide about 40% of New Zealand's coal, feeding the massive Huntly power station and the Glenbrook steel mill. Local clay is the source of Huntly's distinctive bricks, as well as of iconic Crown Lynn pottery.
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According to a Wikipedia entry, the commission date is 1983; however... The original four generators were built between 1973 and 1985, and the station was upgraded with a gas turbine plant in 2004. A further upgrade in 2007 increased the station’s production of power from an original 1000 megawatts of electricity to 1485 MW.
Similar to multi-reactor nuclear power plants, any multi unit plant may begin generation when one unit is complete. Eg Karabakh nuclear power plant in the UAE, it's still under construction as of today, but its first reactor and ancillaries began generating power in 2020
My grandfather, an ex-Huntly coalminer told me as a kid that the entrance to Ralph's Mine is located under the Huntly library building.
The original mine was literally in the main street at one time, just up a little way from the old railway bridge. I don't know when it moved from that position. The old library was an annex to the Council building and cinema/theatre back in the Fifties. Now all long gone. I have no idea where the new library is.
The Huntly Museum is probably the best place to check for a timeline of events.
I was a worker at Huntly power station