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Question and Answer Tracking Details

1656 - GAS AND ELECTRICITY PRICES

Hornery, Sonia to the Minister for Resources and Energy, Special Minister of State, and Minister for the Central Coast
  1. Over the next 5 years:
    1. will gas bills double;
    2. will electricity prices continue to increase above CPI increases?
  2. If not, how much will gas and electricity prices rise over the next five years?
Answer -
  1. and (2) The AEMC has published its report, Future Possible Retail Electricity Price Movements: 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2013, and is available on the AEMC website at www.aemc.gov.au This report includes predictions on the future price of electricity in NSW.
    Price rises from 1 July 2012 are largely expected to be as a result of Federal Labor's Carbon Tax and the Renewable Energy Target, both of which NSW Labor have publically expressed its support.

Question asked on 6 March 2012 (session 55-1) and printed in Questions & Answers Paper No. 71
Answer received on 22 March 2012 and printed in Questions & Answers Paper No. 77