The Lake Margaret Power Station is the third oldest hydro-electric power plant in Tasmania, Australia. It was constructed between 1911 and 1914, by the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company. It was sold to the Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Commission in 1984, and was officially decommissioned on 30 June 2006, and recommissioned in 2009 after a multi-million refit and officially reopened
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