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Electricity generation costs would be up to 50% higher if Australia stuck with coal and gas only This article is more than 1 month old Patrick Commins Economics editor Griffith University experts reveal the 30% increase in consumer power bills since 2021 would have been worse under fossil fuel-only scenario Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Follow Patrick Commins in My Guardian Notifications off Thu 25 Sep 2025 10.00 AEST 4:10 Listen to this article The cost of generating electricity would be up to 50% higher today if Australia had relied solely on coal and gas instead of pursuing renewables, according to new analysis. Right-leaning politicians and climate deniers have seized on the 30% increase in electricity bills since 2021 to call for new coal-fired power plants to replace renewable projects, claiming it would bring down energy bills. To interrogate these claims, Paul Simshauser and Joel Gilmore from Griffith University’s Centre for Applied Energy Economics and Policy Research modelled a counterfactual scenario where resource-rich Queensland had ignored the global push towards net zero and climate science and instead pursued an electricity grid based on fossil fuels from 2005 – when coal and gas were “unambiguously the lowest cost technologies”.
November 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM