Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factory

From the top of the raw coal bunker, the full footprint of Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories spreads across the frame. The rising conveyor runs through the centre, connecting to the power station bunker, with the wet section to the left and the first of the briquette factories beyond it. Open ground sits to the right of the power station. The view sets the whole complex out at once, the conveyor line drawing the eye across from the coal side to the main buildings.

The complex was built and operated by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria as an integrated brown coal plant, a power station with two briquette factories from an original plan of four, the third and fourth cancelled after the 1951 to 1953 funding halt. Electricity production commenced in December 1958 and the first commercial briquettes followed in December 1959. With the demolition of Old Yallourn it became the earliest surviving large scale Victorian state grid power station of the SECV era. Brett photographed the complex from the raw coal bunker on 14 April 2017, in the closed plant before the demolition program began.