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this into the future planning for the region.” AGL also announced it was developing a national energy workforce strategy in conjunction with state and federal governments. Mr Brokhof said the company would assess the resources, workforce, reskilling programs and industrial partners needed to attract new industries to Loy Yang. “We are now getting all the people together to develop this strategy; it’s not only AGL that is transforming in the Valley, we have Hazelwood and [Yallourn],” he said. “There will be a structural change away from coal to renewables and we need every party, the community, Indigenous people, state and federal government to do this structural transition. “We are one stakeholder, we are an important stakeholder, but not the only one to do the structural transition.”
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AGL has promised to accelerate its plans to turn Loy Yang into an industrial energy hub after it brought forward the closure of its Latrobe Valley power station by a decade. AGL chief operating officer, Markus Brokhof, told The Express that the company still intended to carry out its maintenance schedule at Loy Yang A, and had just employed six new apprentices. Mr Brokhof said AGL would need the cash flow from operating Loy Yang A until 2035 to help finance its plans to build 12 gigawatts of renewables and storage by 2036 and five gigawatts by 2030. AGL announced last week it was getting out of thermal coal by the middle of next decade and would spend $20 billion on the transition. Mr Brokhof said this money would be distributed between AGL’s Latrobe
Valley, Hunter Valley and the Torrens Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain project Island sites, to transform them into low at the site. carbon energy hubs. He said AGL was planning to rehaHe said AGL would now focus on Loy bilitate its mine by creating a pit lake, Yang, after having concenbut would prolong mining if trated its efforts on the next any low-emissions industries year’s closure of Liddell in wanted to use the coal. the Hunter. There were also contrac“This needs to accelerate tual obligations with Alinta [at Loy Yang] because to supply Loy Yang B with initially we were speaking coal, but Mr Brokhof stated about a [closure date] of this was a “complex agree2045, this was quite some ment” that he could not time to go and there was no disclose to the press. need to rush,” Mr Brokhod “We will not walk away said. from our rehabilitation “Now there’s a new AGL chief operating obligations, but if other situation and we have to officer Markus industries like the HESC accelerate the development Brokhof. consortium come forward in the Latrobe Valley, but we and want to use the coal, are not starting from scratch.” we will need a change in our mining Mr Brokhof said a 200 megawatt licence,” he said. battery at Loy Yang was underway, “We will have discussions with the with further talks on the future of the government how we could incorporate
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