Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question, because I think my colleagues in New South Wales are delighted about this project going ahead. In fact, those members who were up there on the weekend saw what the people of the upper Hunter had to say about the Labor Party. They saw that in person.

We are going to lose 1,600 megawatts of capacity when Liddell leaves the market in April 2023, and it needs to be replaced. The good news is we're seeing a major new investment from Energy Australia—a commercial investment, a private-sector investment, from Energy Australia—that will be on in time in 2023 to fill part of that gap in the Illawarra, and I know those members in the Illawarra welcome that project. But that's not enough, because we're losing 1,600 megawatts.

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