Electricity giant will build ‘a whole range of assets’, but not nuclear reactors, to support closure of 50-year-old coal power plants
Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast
Electricity giant AGL Energy is standing firm on replacing ageing coal-fired power stations with renewable energy, as it rejects a federal opposition plan to add nuclear energy to the nation’s network.
“Both time and cost won’t allow nuclear to be done on time … the question right now is about getting on and getting this done as soon as we can,” AGL chief executive Damien Nicks told AAP on Wednesday.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email
About Author
More Stories
Schools closed as category five Tropical Cyclone Zelia heads towards Western Australia coast
Canada and Mexico tariffs risk inflating US housing crisis, Trump is warned
Campaigner for migrants in Libya targeted in spyware attack