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18 December 2019

Environment Victoria: Early Yallourn closure can be absorbed by increasing renewable energy supply, new analysis finds

New research shows that clean energy solutions can replace Yallourn, Australia’s dirtiest power station by 2023, avoiding supply shortages and price spikes with smart investment in replacement renewable supply and storage.

The research shows we can get all the clean energy and storage we need to replace Yallourn by 2023 from projects already proposed, along with smart energy solutions like demand management, virtual power plants of rooftop solar and home batteries to smooth out the closure of this coal clunker, and improving connections between power grids in Victoria and other states. This would cut pollution, bring new jobs and investment to Victoria, make our energy more reliable and keep power prices down.


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4 Jan 2021

Vales Point power station’s billionaire beggars receive $62 million dividend for FY2019-20

Vales Point power station owners Trevor St Baker and Brian Flannery took $62 million in dividends in FY2019-20 but they are still earmarked for a Federal Government grant $8.7 million grant.
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16 Dec 2020

Nature Conservation Council: AGL cops record penalty after hazardous coal-ash sludge spill into Bayswater Creek

Energy giant AGL has paid a record amount in rehabilitation costs, legal fees and community payments after a pipeline at its Bayswater power station burst and released 1,440 cubic metres of hazardous...
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11 Dec 2020

Environment Victoria: Fresh concerns over Latrobe Valley mine ‘pit lakes’ in drying climate

The proposal to turn Latrobe Valley coal mines into lakes is unviable under future climate scenarios because there won’t be enough water in the Latrobe River system, says a new report from...
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