The truth about soaring power prices: wind and solar not to blame

Separate events, different states, alternate days.

A vocal but powerful minority argues coal is the future,
 but that's simply not the view shared by the power generators.

Between them, however, competition kahuna Rod Sims and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull last week demolished an old chestnut about renewable energy: it is not the cause for the recent spike in electricity prices.

In fact, according to both, it has had very little impact.

For the past decade or more, we've been bombarded with the message from a vocal but powerful minority within Parliament and the broader community that the switch to renewable energy has made Australia uncompetitive, crippled our industry and driven power prices higher.

The real issue is that, fundamentally, they don't believe climate change is real or that humans have adversely affected the planet.

Having spent so long denying science and rejecting the overwhelming body of evidence, they're now being forced to ignore economics; that renewables have become a cheaper longer term power source.

Coal is the future, they argue.

Read the ABC News story by Ian Verrender - “The truth about soaring power prices: wind and solar not to blame.”