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What this week's closure of Liddell power plant means for energy prices and blackouts in NSW

AGL announced plans to wind up the Liddell plant back in 2015. (ABC News: John Gunn)

The Liddell Power Station has reached the end of its life, after helping light New South Wales for more than half a century.

This week the remaining three turbines at the coal-fired plant in the Upper Hunter will spin for the last time, with the final generator due to shut on Friday.

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