Hard to believe but he used some questionable figures
Dutton says residents of Ontario, Canada enjoy cheaper power prices – 18¢ a kilowatt-hour (kWh) – courtesy of the province’s eight nuclear reactors generating about 60 percent of electricity supply
He told Nine’s Today program on September 20 that Ontarians were “paying one-third the cost of electricity that we are here”. In July, he said they were “paying about a quarter of the price
However, this comparison is questionable because Australian prices include a range of costs that Ontarians must pay on top of their kWh charge. Network charges – the cost of building, running and maintaining power poles and wires across the grid – are listed separately on Ontario’s bills and can run into hundreds of dollars a year.
The CSIRO has said a grid drawing 90 per cent of its power from renewables would deliver the cheapest electricity at between $89 and $128 per megawatt hour by 2030. It included $40 billion of transmission lines, batteries and pumped hydro.
A large-scale nuclear reactor would supply power for $136 to $226 per megawatt hour by 2040, and small modular reactors for between $171 and $366
