While rising network charges were expected to place upward pressure on bills, falling wholesale electricity costs — helped by increased wind and battery generation — appear to have outweighed them in most regions this year.
Flat-rate residential DMO prices are set to fall between 3.4% and 7.2% across NSW and South East Queensland, while South Australia is the only region facing a small increase of 1.4%.
That’s not “right wingers”, that’s conspiracy theorists.
The transmission costs for “renewables” in Australia are in the trillions. Nuclear uses the existing infrastructure for transmission.
The line between right-wingers and conspiracy theorists during covid was pretty much the same.
Is it? Someone should tell South Australia
https://aussie.zone/post/33129604
Where did you get trillions from?
—- No. Current official estimates for Australia’s renewable energy transmission costs are in the tens of billions, not trillions.
AEMO’s Draft 2026 Integrated System Plan (ISP) projects around $9 billion for new transmission infrastructure by 2050, representing about 7% of total capital costs. The total system overhaul (including generation, storage, and transmission) is estimated at $128 billion, with transmission making up a small fraction of that.
While transmission project costs have risen sharply—25–55% for overhead lines and 10–35% for substations since 2024—these increases are still measured in billions, not trillions. Some critics argue costs are higher than initial estimates, but no authoritative source supports a trillion-dollar figure.
https://chat.mistral.ai/work/2b914421-0277-4aea-9dd0-15783cd73886