{"id":1196054,"date":"2023-08-31T08:18:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T08:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/?p=371111"},"modified":"2023-08-31T08:18:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T08:18:38","slug":"old-coal-clunkers-the-problem-not-the-aemo-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/31\/old-coal-clunkers-the-problem-not-the-aemo-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Old coal clunkers the problem, not the AEMO solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"976\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/123287919_eraringpowerstation.webp\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Eraring coal fired power plant\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/123287919_eraringpowerstation.webp 976w, https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/123287919_eraringpowerstation-480x270.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 976px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>Mainstream media is lobbying to keep Australia's largest coal plant, Eraring, open for 'reliability' reasons. Origin wants it closed. What's the scam?\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/old-coal-clunkers-the-problem-not-the-aemo-solution\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainstream media is lobbying to keep Australia&#8217;s largest coal plant, Eraring, open for &#8216;reliability&#8217; reasons. Origin wants it closed. What&#8217;s the scam?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21729],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196057,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196054\/revisions\/1196057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}