Never mind the fact the Coalition's nuclear proposal is a fantasy - it doesn't even claim to reduce power bills

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Renewable energy is blamed for all sorts of ills, and its expansion is not without challenges.
52% : They have found, repeatedly, that nuclear energy would be more expensive than what Australia is building now - a system that will run overwhelmingly on renewable energy, with "firming" support from energy storage and transmission links and further back-up from "peaking" gas plants.
48% : Experts say the Coalition's plan to limit new solar and wind generation coming into the grid and in the short-term boost fossil fuel power - particularly gas, the most expensive form of electricity in the system - could lead to bills going up.
40% : But the evidence is that recent big power bill rises were mostly due to fossil fuel prices going up after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and to fossil fuel outages, not solar and wind.

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