“Literally collapsing around workers:” Ageing coal plant suffers fresh unplanned outage

A 380 megawatt (MW) unit at Victoria’s Yallourn coal power plant will be out of action for at least two weeks, after an air duct collapsed during routine maintenance early on Sunday morning.

EnergyAustralia confirmed on Tuesday that an air duct on Unit 3 of the ageing brown coal plant…