Coal Chimneys Crash In New Era For Renewables In Australia
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- Energy Coal Chimneys Crash In New Era For Renewables In Australia By Ian Dexter Palmer, Ph.D.,
- Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights.
- Energy giant AGL, said the ageing equipment was subject to breakdowns and was increasingly unreliable.
Energy Coal Chimneys Crash In New Era For Renewables In Australia By Ian Dexter Palmer, Ph.D.,
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables.Follow Author Jun 08, 2026, 10:14pm EDTLiddell power station demolition. AGLTwo enormous chimney stacks, about 5050 feet tall, in the Liddell coal power plant came crashing down last month. The AGL Energy plant was decommissioned three years ago, and this was the first stage of the demolition of four steam driven turbines amounting to 2000 MW (megawatts) or 2 GW (gigawatts) built about 52 years ago near a medium-sized town called Muswellbrook, about 3 hours north of Sydney.
Energy giant AGL, said the ageing equipment was subject to breakdowns and was increasingly unreliable. But where is AGL, an energy giant, headed? And where is Australia headed in the matter of coal transition to renewable energies?