Support is hardening in the federal Coalition for coal-fired power to have a medium-term role in Australia's electricity market, with some MPs suggesting a "base-load investment scheme" to upgrade and extend the life of coal plants and operate alongside a future Clean Energy Target.
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| The Liddell power station. |
But the Liddell power station at the centre of the political fight over energy is operating at below half its rated capacity, and would present "mammoth problems" for any company seeking to extend its life, according to a former senior Macquarie Generation engineer.
The retired senior engineer, who worked at the neighbouring coal-fired Bayswater plant and had frequent discussions with his counterparts at Liddell, said Liddell was known "to have massive problems”.
"It's just never been a good plant," the man, speaking on condition of anonymity, said. "It's never been reliable.”
Read the story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Base-load investment scheme' could keep coal alive, but Liddell power station has 'mammoth problems’.”
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