'Clean coal' would push up power bills more than wind, solar or gas: analysts

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and
Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg.

"Clean coal" plants that the Turnbull government has flagged could get clean energy subsidies are more expensive than solar, wind and gas-fired power and would lead to higher electricity price rises, analysts have warned.

Support for what the government calls "clean coal" stations - ultra-supercritical plants, which still emit greenhouse gas - would also be at odds with a 2015 OECD agreement under which Australia agreed not to fund any type of coal power in developing countries if cleaner options were available.

Read Adam Morton’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “'Clean coal' would push up powerbills more than wind, solar or gas: analysts.”