Category: Eraring Power Station

No End to Price Shocks: Think Tank Warns Against Closing Australia’s Largest Power Station

June 6, 2023
AustraliaBusiness & Marketseconomic policiesenergyEraring Power StationLiddell Power Stationnet zeroOrigin EnergyWorld
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The New South Wales (NSW) Labor government must do everything it can to stop the closure of the Eraring Power Station, with one think tank warning its shutdown could trigger major energy shortages and price hikes.  Eraring’s seemingly inevitable closure will follow that of Liddell Power Station, Australia’s second-largest power plant, which supplied power to…

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Energy Company Bets Big on Australia’s Largest Battery as Major Coal Power Plant Set to Close

April 21, 2023
AustraliaBusiness & MarketsChris MinnsCompanieseconomic policiesenergyEraring Power Stationnet zeroNew South WalesNSWOrigin EnergyWorld
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One of Australia’s largest coal-fired power stations—that supplies a quarter of New South Wales’ (NSW) energy needs—will soon close and be replaced by the country’s largest battery in the rush to reach net-zero. On April 20, Origin Energy, one of the “Big Three” energy providers, servicing 4.2 million households and businesses, said it would spend…

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