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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Matthew Kelly

Gas power helping to prop-up energy grid

The Colongra gas-fired power station on the Central Coast has been running at historically high levels in recent months in an attempt to sure up an increasingly unstable electricity grid.

The current evolving energy shortfall conditions have been attributed to unprecedented failures and low output of coal-fired generators in the National Energy Market and the ongoing unseasonal low output of renewable generators over the last two months.

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