Welcome to Eraring, Australia’s largest power station
Eraring has supplied power to NSW for over 40 years.
Eraring is also one of the most flexible power stations in the National Electricity Market. It’s playing an important role in supporting the market’s transition to renewable energy sources, while continuing to provide reliable and affordable energy to our customers.
In these pages, we present the latest news of Eraring operations, projects and transition to closure, and updates on our work in the community.
Eraring’s transition to closure
In January 2026 Origin announced a delay to the retirement of the Eraring Power Station from August 2027 to April 2029. Keep up-to-date on the work we’re doing on site and to support our people and local community as we transition to closure.
Supporting our people
Learn how the Future Directions program is supporting our people as Eraring transitions to retirement.
Eraring site decomissioning
Learn how we are planning for the decommissioning of the Eraring site following the retirement of the Eraring Power Station.
Eraring Power Station historical archive
Explore the history of Eraring through this digital archive of images, publications and videos.
Eraring at a glance
Eraring Power Station is a black coal-fired power station. It’s located in NSW on the shores of Lake Macquarie, approximately 120 km north of Sydney and 40 km south of Newcastle.
The station comprises four 720 MW coal fired generator units and one 42 MW diesel generator. This gives it an overall generating capacity of 2,922 MW and makes it Australia’s largest power station. It accounts for approximately 25% of New South Wales’ power requirements.
Fully commissioned in 1984, Eraring was acquired from the NSW Government by Origin in 2013. It is our only coal fired power station.
Under the 5 pillars of our decarbonisation strategy, Origin has committed to a cleaner, smarter energy future. We’ve set targets to reduce our carbon emissions and increase our renewables and storage capacity and will eventually retire the Eraring Power Station.
We intend to use the Eraring site beyond retirement of the coal-fired power station and are currently installing a large-scale battery.
Origin will work with our people and the local community to determine the most appropriate transition planning for any eventual closure.
Career opportunities at Eraring
Check out the current career opportunities at Eraring and elsewhere at Origin.
Latest news
20 January 2026
Origin Extends Eraring Power Station Operations to 2029
11 December 2025
Largest battery in Southern Hemisphere to get even bigger
21 November 2024
Eraring battery to further expand, becoming largest in the Southern Hemisphere
30 October 2024
Construction of stage 2 of the Eraring battery commences
25 July 2024
Origin approves second stage of Eraring battery
23 May 2024
Origin Energy Limited (Origin) advises it has executed an agreement with the New South Wales Government to delay the retirement of Eraring Power Station by two years, to support security of the state’s electricity supply through the energy transition.
14 August 2023
Origin is proud to announce the beneficiaries of the first round of the Eraring Community Investment Fund representing a total investment of $281,929 towards eight local projects. Recipients of the first round funds can be found on our fund webpage.
14 August 2023
Applications for the second round of funding from the Eraring Community Investment are now open until 24 September. For further information including eligibility criteria, head to the Eraring Community Investment Fund webpage.
28 June 2023
Origin has acquired a 5 per cent equity interest in Newcastle based clean-tech company Allegro Energy and agreed to a pilot of their long duration battery at Eraring Power Station.
19 May 2023
Applications for the first round of funding from the Eraring Community Investment Fund are now open until 18 June. For further information including eligibility criteria, head to our Community Investment Fund page.
20 April 2023
Origin announced it had taken a final investment decision to progress the first stage of a large-scale battery at Eraring. Stage one involves construction of a 460 MW battery storage system with a dispatch duration of two hours, anticipated to come online in the final quarter of the 2025 calendar year.
12 May 2022
Eraring Battery receives NSW Government approval. Origin Energy (Origin) has reached an important milestone in its plans to develop a large-scale battery at Eraring Power Station, receiving planning approval from the NSW Department of Planning and Environment (DPR).
17 February 2022
17 February 2022: Origin proposes to accelerate exit from coal-fired generation. Notice has been submitted to the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) indicating the potential early retirement of Eraring coal-fired power station at the end of the required three- and half-year notice period.
1 July 2021
Origin set to significantly increase coal ash recycling at Eraring
12 January 2021
Origin has announced plans to progress the development of a major grid scale battery at Eraring.
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