EnergyAustralia today said it plans to submit an updated application with the New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment for a rail coal unloader that’s integral to Mt Piper power station’s continued operation.

EnergyAustralia, one of the country’s leading energy retailers, today said it was optimistic that pressure on household energy bills would continue to ease even though the wholesale electricity market would likely remain tight for the remainder of 2018.

EnergyAustralia today said average electricity prices across its household customers in Queensland would fall by more than $80 for 2018, and by around $470 a year for its small business customers. Meanwhile, New South Wales customers on the company’s new fixed-rate plan Secure Saver would save around $65 a year.

EnergyAustralia, one of the country’s leading energy retailers, today welcomed the Victorian Government’s approval of an application to extend the main extraction licence for the Yallourn mine in the Latrobe Valley.

EnergyAustralia, operator of the Tallawarra power station, is investing $9.5 million in a maintenance program that will enable the combined-cycle gas plant to react more quickly to shortfalls in market supply.