When AGL said six years ago how it would replace capacity at NSW’s Liddell power station, it promised a gas plant, battery and LNG imports. None of it happened.
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The early closure of Australiaâs dirtiest coal-fired power station will help cut Australiaâs carbon emissions as it seeks to meet its Paris Climate Accord pledge.
EnergyAustralia announced on Wednesday that it would close the 48-year-old Yallourn coal-fired power plant in Victoria four years earlier than expected, in mid-2028 rather than in 2032.
Energy Australia will close the Yallourn power station in Victoriaâs Latrobe Valley in mid-2028Â
Joe Armao
Such older and less flexible brown coal plants are less able to respond to the more volatile demand and rock-bottom daytime prices for grid-based power that have become typical as solar floods into the system.