Energy generators poke holes in Dutton’s nuclear plan as questions over costings pile up

The Australian Energy Council, which represents energy retailers and generators, says the Coalition’s costings raise ‘questions on the role of the market in an energy system’. Photograph: Russell Freeman/AAP

The Coalition’s nuclear energy plan creates “a significant risk” for the stability of the nation’s grid, according to the peak body representing power generators and retailers.

Responding to the Friday release of modelling by Frontier Economics of the Coalition’s scheme to build seven nuclear power plants from the mid-2030s, the Australian Energy Council warned the estimates assumed a slower build out of renewable energy.