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EnergyAustralia is to accelerate the closure of a 100-year-old coal-fired plant and install a giant storage battery to achieve a faster transition to clean power.
The Yallourn site in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, which supplies about 20 percent of electricity demand in the state, is to shut by the middle of 2028 rather than 2032, the unit of Hong Kong-based CLP Holdings said in a statement.
Under the plan, the electricity retailer is to add a four-hour, 350-megawatt (MW) utility-scale storage battery larger than anything in operation globally in the same region as the coal plant by 2026.
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