When Jono Lawless began work in the control room of Origin Energy’s giant Eraring power station in 2006, his shifts were much less complicated.
“We ran [the generator units] just about flat out through the day, and then about, say, 10 o’clock at night, we came down to our bottom,” Lawless told visiting journalists on Tuesday. “Then we’d park them overnight, pretty much, and then come up pretty hard in the morning – just before dawn – when everyone, the miners, get up to put the kettles on.”
