Weir questions electricity strategy

Shadow Energy Minister and Member for Condamine Pat Weir has asked why the State Government has failed to get the two key Callide electricity generators back online, to bring down pressures on electricity prices.

Figures quoted by the Opposition from the Australian Energy Market Regulator showed that power bills are skyrocketing another 21.5 per cent, two years to the day after the Callide generator explosion.

Mr Weir said responsibility for rising power prices rested squarely at the failure of the Palaszczuk Labor Government to respond adequately to shortfalls caused by the failures of a Callide power generator in 2021.

“Today marks two years since the first Callide explosion and Queenslanders still don’t know when the generators will be restored,” he said.

“Both the Queensland Competition Authority and the Auditor-General have exposed the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s failure to restore Callide generators is driving up electricity prices.

“Queenslanders have also been kept in the dark about the impact of Genuity’s collapse on the timeline to restore Callide and the way forward.”