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Jack Gramenz

Taxpayers win as biggest power plant keeps itself open

Origin Energy says taxpayers won't need to pay to keep Eraring Power station operating this year. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Taxpayers won't have to bail out Australia's largest power station - for the coming year at least - as the clock ticks on a once-in-a-generation energy transition.

Origin Energy decided not to trigger the first year of the $450 million risk-sharing deal for the ageing coal-fired facility in the Hunter Valley region in NSW.

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