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"It seems our alternative Prime Minister Peter Dutton’s favourite topic is your
electricity bill. Given how much he talks about electricity prices, you’d
think he might know a fair bit about what makes up your electricity bill,
wouldn’t you?
According to Dutton and his Shadow Energy Minister Ted O’Brien, the problem is
all about too much renewable energy in the mix. And their answer to the problem
is nuclear power, as well as more gas.
According to Peter Dutton, “We can’t continue a situation that Labor has us on
of a renewables only policy because, as we know, your power prices are just
going to keep going up under this Prime Minister.”
Instead, according to Dutton, “we could be like Ontario, where they’ve got 60
or 70 per cent nuclear in the mix, and they’re paying about a quarter of the
price for electricity that we are here in Australia.”
O’Brien, elaborated on this point by saying:
“We will have plenty of time in due course to talk about the costings [for
their nuclear plan] once we release them here in the Australian context. But I
point to Ontario in Canada, there you have up to 60 per cent of their energy
mix in the grid, coming from zero emissions, nuclear energy. Their households
pay around about 14 cents kilowatt hour. There are parts in Australia that will
be paying up to 56 cents a kilowatt hour from July 1 this year.”
Once you actually delve into these numbers it becomes apparent that O’Brien and
Dutton don’t seem know much about electricity costs and pricing.
But even worse, they don’t know how badly Ontario’s taxpayers and electricity
consumers were burnt by their utility racking up huge debt building nuclear
power plants equal to $70 billion in current day Australian dollars."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
