Victorian EPA Licence no.10961 (EPA Licence) issued to EnergyAustralia Yallourn Pty Ltd (EAY) allows conditional discharges to air from three discharge points at the Yallourn Power Station described as A1, A2a and A2b.

Two EPA Licence conditions require EAY to publish certain discharge to air monitoring program results online.  They are as follows:

  • LI_DA4.3 You must establish and implement a program for a 12-month period to monitor the discharge to air, at discharge point(s) A1, A2a and A2b, of fine particles PM2.5 and coarse particles PM10 to establish the 90th percentile annual frequency distribution. The results of this program must be made available to EPA on request and must be published to the publicly accessible website required by condition LI_DA4.2 by 31 March 2022; and
  • LI_DA4.4 You must establish and implement a program for a 12-month period to monitor the discharge to air, at discharge point(s) A1, A2a and A2b, of all class 3 indicators listed in Schedule A of State Environment Protection Policy (Air Quality Management), as agreed in writing with EPA. The results of this program must be made available to EPA on request and must be published to the publicly accessible website required by condition LI_DA4.2 by 31 March 2022.

Pursuant to the above EPA Licence conditions, the results of the air monitoring programs are provided below: