AGL says it can replace Liddell with renewables, gas power and batteries

Annual general meeting told of plans for ageing power station, including reiteration of reasons it should be decommissioned

AGL has proposed to replace its ageing Liddell power station with renewables, batteries, gas power, upgraded coal power and demand response. And the company again outlined a laundry list of problems with the federal government's request for it to extend the plant's life or sell it.

At AGL's annual general meeting on Wednesday its chief executive, Andy Vesey, outlined the "broad architecture" of a plan to replace the eight terawatt hours of energy produced by Liddell each year (a terawatt is 1,000 gigawatts), as well as the 1,000MW of standing capacity the plant maintains.