Senate debates

Monday, 16 September 2024

Questions without Notice

Energy

2:35 pm

Photo of Malcolm RobertsMalcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

So the minister cannot tell us the battery capacity required, nor the capital cost of that battery backup. Minister, AEMO is working off a figure of 60 gigawatt hours of storage at around $1 billion an hour, which is $60 billion. How much will electricity prices and supermarket prices rise as a result of having to spend that staggering amount of money?

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