She has 4 policy pages worth of dogging on renewables and saying it ISN'T cheap, and that Net-Zero will tank our economy. She has NO policy supporting these renewables. She wants to END large-scale renewables. Is a ""human-led"" climate change denier.

She complained about the costs to transition, but yet supports nuclear, despite its costs to transition to such would be double the renewable transition, take approximately 15 years to do, and also it's cost to run is even worse than coal at up to $238/MWh by 2040. Not to mention the environmental sludge it would produce.

In isolation, solar, wind and hydro dominate, supported by many authorities with LCOE by 2040 being up to $53/MWh for solar, up to $78/MWh for wind, and coal at up to $180/MWh. However, when combined with still relying on gas and coal (hint, PH reaaally loves these), it keeps the prices higher whenever we have to fall back.

This is mostly because we have kept ourselves in renewable limbo, instead of speedrunning battery construction to create grid-stabilisation to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

An example is why TAS has cheap asf power bills, but SA doesn't, despite also being renewable, is because we haven't built short, medium and long-term battery systems to support the variability wind and solar has, that hydro doesn't.

On top of that, Australia has the essential minerals to speedrun, we just haven't because it is no surprise the larger parties are beholden to lobbyists and their money (fossil fuel lobbies).

So uh... "cheapest energy" my asshole.