 On 30 July 2015, Alinta Energy announced it was bringing the closure dates of all three facilities forward by 12 months, and intended to no longer operate them past March 2017 and could shut them down as early as March 2016.On 7 October 2015, Alinta Energy announced the permanent closure of Northern and Playford B around 31 March 2016, effectively meaning that Playford B would never re-open.In January 2016, Alinta announced that the closure date had been set back to 8 May 2016 and the Northern Power Station was shut down on 9 May.