Bayswater Power Station is a bituminous (black) coal-powered thermal power station with four 660 megawatts (890,000 hp) Tokyo Shibaura Electric (Japan) steam driven turbo alternators for a combined capacity of 2,640 megawatts (3,540,000 hp).

All coal is supplied via the Antiene Train Unloader situated on the west side of Lake Liddell and transported to Bayswater's stockpiles by a 5.5km long overland conveyor.

Coal consumption is around 8 megatonnes (8,800,000 short tons) per annum and produces around 17,000 gigawatt-hours (61,000 TJ) of electricity a year.

[citation needed] Carbon Monitoring for Action estimates this power station emits 19.80 million tonnes of greenhouse gases each year as a result of burning coal.

[3] In 2010 the Australian Government announced the introduction of a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme to help combat climate change.