Darling Downs Power Station is a 630MW gas-fired combined cycle power plant built by Origin Energy in the Darling Downs region of southwest Queensland, Australia.
It is one of the largest and cleanest baseload power stations in terms of carbon emissions in Australia. The plant eliminates about 2.5 million tons of greenhouse gases a year.
The project originally belonged to Sun Retail which was acquired by Origin Energy in February 2007.
Construction works of the $1bn project commenced in August 2007 with the first turbine coming online in December 2009. The power station was fully operational in July 2010.
Electricity produced by Darling Downs is sufficient to power 400,000 homes in Queensland.
Origin Energy bought 77ha of land adjacent to the plant to accommodate future expansion.