just to add However, she said there were several reasons why those savings were not passed down to consumers.
One was due to the extremely high price volatility in the market, she said, due in part to aging, unreliable coal-fired power stations and inflated global coal and gas prices.
Ms Silcock said retailers had to absorb the risk of "high price events", such as repeated breakdowns at the Callide C coal plant near Biloela, which caused prices to skyrocket.
