Via the AFR:
The Turnbull government is coming under pressure to intervene to keep the massive Hazelwood power plant open in the face of increasing alarm about power shortages.
Lobby groups are believed to have approached the government in the past 24 hours seeking some form of intervention to keep the ageing power station open until a short-term replacement for its power out is found.
For God’s sake, there is oodles of spare capacity in the National Electricity Market (NEM):
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