The stations, and what is being built on them

Eraring, Bayswater, Liddell and the batteries rising beside them: the Hunter’s generators and their successor projects, reported from the proponents’ own published documents, with every position attributed by name.

Generation + projects

A 750 MW power station is burning diesel overnight at Kurri Kurri. That is what final commissioning looks like.

Snowy Hydro’s own schedule for the final diesel-testing phase, the sentence on its page saying the impacts of recent testing are under investigation, the 1,100-hour licence cap that defines what a peaker is, and the weakest gas quarter since 1999.

28 July 2026

Generation + projects

Two offers in four days: Origin puts a $150 million number on Eraring’s coal

The mine that supplies every tonne Eraring burns is in a live, priced disagreement with the station’s owner, and the workforce machinery is already at the Fair Work Commission.

18 July 2026

Generation + projects

Liddell’s stacks are down, and the battery replacing them is due about now

AGL’s demolition, its $750 million battery at the edge of the company’s own stated commissioning window, and the hub plans behind both.

18 July 2026

Generation + projects

The Eraring battery has quietly become a four-stage, 3,160 megawatt hour build

Origin’s own stage table, charted: half the project operating, half in build, and a clear pattern of buying hours rather than megawatts.

18 July 2026