ENVIRONMENT

AGL takeover could make its coal-fired stations history by 2030

BILLIONAIRE Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes proposes spending up to $20 billion to replace AGL’s coal fired powered stations with renewable energy by 2030 if he succeeds in his mooted takeover of the utility.

 AGL's Bayswater power station.

AGL's Bayswater power station.

This would be 15 years earlier than current forecasts and would be in line with calls by environmentalists that Australia should pursue a net zero policy by 2030 rather than 2050. AGL's board advised...

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