Dylan McConnell, University of Melbourne
Business here and households here, already we’re paying twice the cost of the US for electricity. – Craig Kelly MP, chair of the backbench environment and energy committee, ABC Radio National Breakfast interview, December 6, 2016. (Listen from 7.38)
Environment and energy minister Josh Frydenberg recently left openthe possibility of some form of carbon trading in the electricity sector. He later ruled out that option, saying he wanted to keep electricity prices down.
Following Frydenberg’s initial comments, Liberal MP Craig Kelly said businesses and households in Australia are already paying twice as much as Americans for their electricity.
Is that true?
Checking the source
When asked for sources to support his statement, Craig Kelly referred The Conversation to a range of sources, saying that:
… a report titled 2015 Residential Electricity Price Trends lists [on page 212] the average…
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