Find the next Liddell — starting with Liddell

Hunter / Muswellbrook

Retired thermal plant, retained transmission, a 500 MW battery, and no verified campus MW.

Flagship post-generation object. AGL has named data centres as a possible partner class.

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Liddell / Muswellbrook — Hunter Energy Hub

32.372°S 150.978°E

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Deliverable MW today

High confidence

0 MW

The 500 MW battery is storage. It is not a verified 500 MW supply to a compute tenant.

Time to power (likely)

Preliminary

2032

Likely later because partner process, studies and fibre are not started as a published DC project.

Overall confidence

moderate

SITE-AU-NSW-LIDDELL-001

Existing
Liddell station
Retired April 2023. Demolition underway.
Existing
Bayswater 2,715 MW
Closing by 2033.
Existing
Liddell Battery 500 MW / 2 h
Commercial June 2026. Storage, not campus offtake.
Speculative
Data-centre partnership
Under consideration.

VerifiedExisting
Liddell Power Station shut down in April 2023. Neighbouring Bayswater is 2,715 MW coal, scheduled to close by 2033. Combined landholding is 10,000 hectares.
AGL Energy · AGL in the Hunter Region · published n/a · accessed 2026-09-18
VerifiedExisting
The Liddell Battery is 500 MW / 2-hour and became commercially available in June 2026. This is storage, not a verified offtake for a data-centre tenant.
AGL Energy · Liddell Battery · published 2026-09-18 · accessed 2026-09-18
Moderate confidenceSpeculative
AGL has stated that data centres are among potential partners under consideration at the Hunter Energy Hub. No data-centre project is approved or power-contracted on the evidence assembled here.
pv magazine Australia · AGL begins commissioning first 250 MW of Liddell battery · published 2026-03-20 · accessed 2026-09-18