
AGL rejects offer to buy its Liddell coal-fired power station
AGL has refused Alinta Energy’s $250 million offer to buy Liddell Power Station and reaffirmed its decision to close the plant in 2022.
AGL has refused Alinta Energy’s $250 million offer to buy Liddell Power Station and reaffirmed its decision to close the plant in 2022.
Renewable energy generators are racing to get large-scale projects financed and built in time to fill the supply gap created by the closure of coal-fired power stations across the country. And they could turn the home of SA’s last coal-fired power station into the state’s green powerhouse.
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The coal era has ended in South Australia this morning with the closure of Alinta’s Northern power station in Port Augusta as debate rages over the state of SA’s energy supply and jobs prospects for the town.