NSW Labor leader Chris Minns has left the door open to a potential buyback of the Eraring power station in a bid to ease prices and an expected supply shortfall, after Treasurer Matt Kean flagged the possibility of intervention to keep the power station open past 2025.
Mr Minns said on Monday he would consider buying back Eraring, the state’s largest power station, if Labor won the March 25 election, declaring that selling off the asset had resulted in taxpayers being “fleeced”.
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Samantha Hutchinson is the AFR's National Reporter. Most recently, she was CBD columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Before that, she covered Victorian and NSW politics and business for The Australian, the AFR and BRW Magazine. Connect with Samantha on Twitter. Email Samantha at samantha.hutchinson@afr.com.au
