The two plants selected for early shutdown currently produce about 7% of Australia’s total carbon emissions
When AGL, Australia’s biggest electricity generator, announced plans on Thursday to accelerate the timetable to close its two largest coal-fired power plants, environmental groups complained the pace wasn’t fast enough.
Out would go Bayswater, AGL’s 2640-megawatt black coal-fired power plant in New South Wales’s Hunter Valley, between 2030 and 2033, rather than 2035 as previously flagged. And by 2045, the 2210MW Loy Yang A brown coal-fired station in Victoria would follow, compared with a 2048 schedule, the company said.