A 750 MW power station is burning diesel overnight at Kurri Kurri. That is what final commissioning looks like.
Snowy Hydro says final testing runs the station on back-up diesel, overnight, one generator at a time, for about four weeks from 16 July, with a visible plume and odour. Its own page also says the impacts of recent testing are under investigation. The licence caps the plant at 1,100 hours a year, and it is arriving in the weakest quarter for gas generation since 1999.
28 July 2026
Two offers in four days: Origin puts a $150 million number on Eraring’s coal
Origin’s two public offers, the $50 million a year gap it says sits between the parties, and the Fair Work Commission application now hanging over the transition.
18 July 2026
Stage 1 of the Hunter’s renewable energy zone network is finished. Here is what was actually built
Fibre optics linking three Upper Hunter switching stations, 350 MW of an eventual gigawatt, and 40 GW of commercial interest queued behind it.
18 July 2026
AEMO’s paperwork carries two Eraring closure dates. Its modelling is calmer than the talk
The 2025 outlook still models August 2027; the current plan uses April 2029. Either way, the operator forecasts no NSW supply gap at the exit.
18 July 2026
Bayswater and Eraring are running less, not breaking down more
AEMO’s quarterly tables show both Hunter coal stations more available and less used. The squeeze is the market, not the machinery.
18 July 2026
Eleven months, 10,072 home batteries: the Hunter’s install data, postcode by postcode
The Regulator’s workbooks, charted: the battery boom month by month, and why Maitland’s 2320 leads every count in the region.
18 July 2026
Liddell’s stacks are down, and the battery replacing them is due about now
The demolition, the $750 million battery at the edge of AGL’s own stated window, and the second 500 MW build already committed at Tomago.
18 July 2026
Four transmission projects will shape the Hunter grid’s next decade. Exactly one is committed
Committed, actionable, anticipated, optional: AEMO’s status ladder for the wires being planned through Bayswater, Olney and the zone.
18 July 2026
The Eraring battery has quietly become a four-stage, 3,160 megawatt hour build
Origin’s own stage table, charted: the megawatts stayed at 700 while the hours deepened from two toward six.
18 July 2026
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