Severe power shortfalls have hit New South Wales for the first time, as the impact of the closures of coal-fired power stations in South Australia and Victoria is compounded by maintenance issues at power stations in NSW.
Australia’s largest aluminium smelter, the Tomago Aluminium plant (pictured) near Newcastle in NSW, which has operated 24 hours a day for over 30 years, was forced to turn off electricity to its potlines three times over four days early in June, as prices spiked due …
