FINANCIALS
(Unconfirmed and unsorted notes)
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CONSTRUCTION
4 November 1913:
1. Power house, building, boiler equipment - £124,424
2. Machinery - £30,982
3. Electrical plant - £9,863
4. Condensing plant - £23,252
5. Switch gear - £15,000
6. Power house flooring spares - £5,000
7. Building & sub-station - £27,100
8. High tension cable work - £21,000
9. Overhead pole line - £10,000
10. Sub-station equipment - £7,000
11. Foundation of site - £$35,000
12. Special wagons for coal - £10,500
TOTAL = £319,121
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13 December 1913 - An estimated ​£350,000 is to be allocated to building the power station.
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​EXTENSIONS / IMPROVEMENTS
30 September 1920 - To date, £422,025/7/7 has been spent on the power station.
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30 December 1923 - Coal bunkers and a coal bucket elevator system is constructed (cost?)
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31 December 1923 - To date, ​£693,523/1/0 has been spent on the power station.
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1924 - Dust catchers are installed on the chimney (cost?)
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19 May 1924 - Metropolitan-Vickers Engineering Company England construct a replica South African shunting engine for the new electric railway for hauling coal and ash (cost?)
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30 December 1924 - To date £724,900/1/8 has been spent on the power station.
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12 March 1925 – John Willcock, Minister for Railways, announces £44,000 will be allocated to the power house for new plant with the following tenders being accepted:
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CA Parsons & Co, Newcastle-on-Tyne England – 12,500kW turbo-alternator, condensing plant and circulating pumps - £46,910
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Babcock and Wilcox Ltd, London – Two marine type water tube boilers, economisers, mechanical draught plant, coal and ash conveying and measuring plant, steam pipes, feed pumps, evaporators and heaters - £91,430
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Babcock and Wilcox Ltd, London – Extensions to the power house - £19,700
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Metropolitan Vickers and Co – Extra high tension switch-gear and control room - £11,240
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Metropolitan Vickers and Co – Low tension switch-gear - £4,900
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Metropolitan Vickers and Co – 500kW turbine - £3,700
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Metropolitan Vickers and Co – Station transformers - £978
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31 March 1927 - To date, £894,851/16/9 has been spent on the power station.
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15 March 1929 - A duplication of the last extensions will be constructed at a cost of £216,845.
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21 May 1949 - The 25,000kW turbo-generator experiences a flash-over on the end windings of the stator and is offline for several weeks as it is dismantled and subsequently repaired (cost?)
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9 June 1949 - A fourth boiler is purchased from Internal Combustion Ltd at a cost of £229,813 for supply and install.
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1950s - Workshops are constructed for a centralised equipment service centre.
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18 December 1953 - CA Parsons & Co Ltd supply a 30,000kW turbo alternator with condensing plant at a cost of £538,350. Internal Combustion Ltd supplies two 30,000kW alternators with condensing plant for £926,940.
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27 September 1954 - State Engineering Works supply circling water screens at £16,100.
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1968 - East Perth converts from coal to furnace oil for burning (cost?)
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1974 - East Perth returns to burning coal (cost?)​
MAINTENANCE / REPAIRS
​29 April 1933 - A fire breaks out in the casing of the coal elevator (cost of repairs?)
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12 March 1945 - A fire breaks out in the coal elevator duct (cost of repairs?)
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5 June 1947 - The No.1 4,000kW turbo-generator explodes, sending fragments smashing through windows, walls and the outside shed. (cost of replacement and repairs?)
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28 November 1951 - The No.6 25,000kW turbo-generator catches on fire and short circuits. It takes a few months to repair and a full service is carried out during this time (cost?)
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3 December 1951 - The exciter on the frequency changer breaks down and a new ring has to be machined (cost?)
POST-CLOSURE
September 1992 - SECWA commission Sydney consultants Godden McKay to undertake a heritage assessment of the power station (cost?)
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October 1993 - SECWA and the East Perth Redevelopment Authority commission Ronald Bodycoat and Oline Richards for a conservation plan (cost?)
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5 April 1995 - Western Power spend millions on removing asbestos from the power station buildings on Summers Street (cost?)
East Perth Power Station and the surrounding site are rehabilitated as part of the East Perth $100m redevelopment program (cost allocated to the power station?)
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26 June 2001 - Western Power commissioned consultants to prepare environmental assessments of the power station in 1995 and 1998 (cost of both?). Some remediation work estimated between $35,000 to $750,000 to remove contaminants including asbestos fibres, hydrocarbons and heavy metals is required (cost if this work was done?)
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7 December 2002 - The State Government is paying approximately $100,000 a year of $6m in maintenance costs (exact costs?)
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23 November 2003 - The East Perth Redevelopment Authority buy the power station from Western Power (cost?). The State Government will now be spending $12.1 weatherproofing, stabilising and preventing any further deterioration of the buildings.
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17 January 2005 - $13m is included in the State Budget to revitalise the power station.
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10 May 2007 - The State Government gives the East Perth Redevelopment Authority $6.984 for their works program, which includes work to be done at the power station.
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8 May 2008 - Treasurer Eric Ripper announces $506 for the power station's redevelopment into a museum, which includes $52m over the forward estimate and $2 for planning and designing the museum (cost spent?)
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7 April 2009 - The East Perth Redevelopment Authority spent an approximate $26,000 annually on maintenance contractors, graffiti removal, vandalism repairs, security patrols, alarm monitoring, pest inspections and treatments.
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2018-2019 - DevelopmentWA spends $1m on Prepatory Investigations (2018-19 Mid-year Review - Appendix 3)
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5 May 2019 - Premier Mark McGowan announces a $30m budget for remediating the power station.
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2019-2020 - DevelopmentWA spends $900,000 on the power station and with the lack of detail, it could be presumed to be maintenance costs, security patrols, pest control and graffiti removal etc (2019-20 Government Mid-year Financial Projections Statement Appendix 3)
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April 2020 - The State Government's commitment to remediation and redevelopment increases to $50m.
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September 2020 - $20m is being allocated to “upgrading necessary infrastructure and improve connectivity to the site”.
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October 2020 - An additional $16.1m is allocated for remediation works in Western Power’s budget, bringing the total government funding to $66m.
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September 2021 - Western Power fork out an extra $400,000, taking their total expenditure to $17.3m.
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December 2021 - A further $8.5m is added to the power station project from DevelopmentWA’s budget during their mid-year financial review, taking the total cost of to $75.8m.
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2022-2023 – The State Government spends $4.4m (2022-23 Government Mid-year Financial Projections Statement Appendix 3)
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May 2022 - A further $9.2m is flagged for the power station project from DevelopmentWA’s budget.
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June 2022 - Taxpayers were said to fork out $112m prior to the site being sold to developers for $1.
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August 2023 – As part of the Perth City Deal, $39.5m will be spent on upgrading necessary infrastructure and improve connectivity to East Perth Power Station.
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24 September 2023 - Contractors DMC Civil are awarded a contract with a project value of $10-30m to construct a pressure steel gas pipeline. The gas plant is removed from the power station precinct (different contract?)
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2023-2024 – The State Government spends $6.2m (2023-24 Mid-year Review - Appendix 3)
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4 June 2024 - $2.4m of an allocated $39.5m is spent from the Main Roads WA Budget to build a footbridge connecting the East Perth Train Station to the East Perth Power Station, which doesn't go ahead.
Costs to remediate the land surrounding the power station have blown out to a whopping $109m. DevelopmentWA will spend a further $5m remediating the site, which brings their total expenditure to $92.7m.
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April 2025 – Perth Festival are apparently told it will cost $80m to remediate and refurbish the inside of the power station to make it safe.
