Do you ever do research or do you just post your simplistic BS opinion?
Wholesale power prices have come down by 2/3 since the peak of 2022 but the cost of maintaining and building networks (poles and wires) is a reason we have higher energy prices
There were other reasons why those savings were not passed down to consumers. One was due to the extremely high price volatility in the market, due in part to aging, unreliable coal-fired power stations and inflated global coal and gas prices. Retailers also have 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.
You ignore that coal and gas are subjects to international supply and demand. Coal prices were sitting at roughly $75 per tonne in 2021 but shot up to over $370 per tonne in 2022. Just like gas, this has flow-on costs for coal-powered stations, which have experienced price spikes from $61 per megawatt hour in 2021 to as much as $230 at times this year.
We live in a global economy, government doesn't own and operate coal mines and they don't produce gas.
Coal and gas are and for quite some time be an important part of the energy mix, but unlike fossil fuels that are subject volatile costs due to supply and Demand. Renewables are not subject to such volatility, should also point out that the more renewable energy we have means less demand for fossil fuels so that brings down the cost of fossil fuels in theory. I say in theory because fossil fuels are a finite resource
