‘A train wreck’: what happens to workers and towns when the lights go out on coal power?

Eraring, the country's largest coal-fired power station, will shut in three years, but transition plans for employees, communities - and the grid - are lacking

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When Jacqui Coleman heard that Australia's largest coal-fired power station was to close seven years earlier than planned, she initially didn't believe it.

Coleman is a retail worker in Dora Creek, the closest suburb to the Eraring power station on the shores of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales.