New South Wales (NSW) could face future energy supply challenges as one of the state’s major coal-fired electricity producers prepares to power down.
“The challenges are big, but the work can be done,” NSW’s new Energy Minister Penny Sharpe told reporters from Nowra on Monday.
“We do have a challenge also, with prices rising over time.”
The Liddell Power Station in Muswellbrook in the Hunter region will close next Tuesday after owner AGL delayed its planned closure by a year.
The shutdown was initially flagged by AGL in 2015 after the operator found the plant had “reached the end of its technical life.”…