Historical information

These photographs, taken by The Advocate in 1999, show the machinery inside the Sunshine Energy Park Turbine House on Hulett Street in Albion.

The Sunshine Energy Park (SEP) was a Council / Private adventure into using the methane gas stored in the former Albion Quarry to heat the boilers to turn the generators to generate electricity. This adventure failed as the qualities of methane gas was insufficient which led to a long protracted legal battle between the Council and its Consultants. This redevelopment proposed is to turn the vacant site into a major parkland including large scale tree planting, a possible solar farm, cycling & walking tracks, sports fields & stadiums, play spaces, a large urban forest & wetlands systems and more.

Significance

These images provide a rare glimpse into the internal machinery housed within the Sunshine Energy Park turbine room.

Physical description

Digital scans of colour negatives

Inscriptions & markings

Energy Park Sunshine 1978