AGL Energy’s Liddell Coal Plant will cease operations today after more than half a century.
Liddell accounted for ten per cent of the state’s energy grid demand last year, but AGL expects no reliability issues after its closure.
More than half of the staff will be transferred to neighbouring plants, while others have opted to retire.
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