Queensland hit by widespread power outage after fire and explosion at Callide Power Station

An explosion and fire at a power station in central Queensland has caused outages to hundreds and thousands of homes and business across parts of the state.

Police and Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) were called to the Callide Power Station at Biloela shortly before 2:00pm.

Paramedics are also on the scene in support of QFES, but a Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) spokeswoman said no patients being treated.

CS Energy, the operators of the Callide station, have tweeted it had "immediately acted following an incident" at the station and there were no reported injuries.

"At approximately 1:45pm today, a fire occurred in one of the turbine halls at the power station," the statement said.

The coal-fired station supplies baseload electricity to the national grid from two sites, the 700-megawatt Callide B station and the 825-megawatt Callide C station.

Powerlink Queensland, the operators of the state's high-voltage electricity transmission network, tweeted it was "investigating an outage impacting power supply".

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