10 March 2021 The planned 2028 closure of EnergyAustralia’s Yallourn power station in Victoria could be fully offset by household energy savings, driven by the uptake of efficient appliances and other measures recently funded by the state government, new calculations have found. EnergyAustralia on Wednesday announced that it would close the Latrobe Valley brown coal-fired power station – one of the dirtiest and most unreliable in Australia – in mid-2028, taking its 1,450MW of capacity out of the state’s electricity mix four years ahead of schedule. The news – along with EnergyAustralia’s commitment to build a big battery in the Latrobe Valley – was welcomed almost universally as offering plenty of time for the outgoing coal power capacity to be replaced by wind, solar and firming technologies like battery storage, pumped hydro and gas.