Lowering prices for households, businesses and industries

ONE NATION ENERGY POLICY: ENDING ‘NET ZERO’ AND BUILDING ENERGY SECURITY FOR ALL AUSTRALIANS

Increasing power prices are a major component in Australia’s cost-of-living crisis. One Nation believes energy policy must start with what families and employers see on their bills. Households need power they can afford, businesses need predictable costs so they can plan and invest, and industry needs energy that does not wipe out margins or push production offshore. That means backing reliable generation, cutting waste and duplication in the system, and ending subsidies and schemes that load extra costs onto every bill without delivering real benefit. 

One Nation supports a range of measures with the aim of reducing energy prices by at least 20%, and improving reliability of power: 

  • amending the NEM rules by removing semi-scheduling provisions so the price of electricity reflects its true market value regardless of the generation source; 
  • encouraging more competition among energy providers to lift service standards and drive down operational costs; 
  • continuing, in principle, the subsidising of the small-scale renewable energy scheme to help more Australian households and small businesses to install solar panels and reduce their electricity costs; 
  • banning charges or fees imposed on Australian households or businesses for exporting excess energy generated by rooftop solar panels into the grid; and 
  • banning compulsory installation of so-called ‘smart meters’ – all Australian households and businesses will have the right to refuse the installation of a smart meter to reduce the ability of energy authorities to switch off a customer’s power for ‘load-shedding’ requirements (which will not be necessary in any case when more power is built into the system). 

Structural and law reform 

One Nation proposes a series of structural and legal framework reforms as part of the effort to dismantle ‘net zero’: 

  • withdrawing Australia from the Paris Agreement; 
  • repealing legislation that enables ‘net zero’, including but not limited to the Climate Change Act 2022, Net Zero Economy Authority Act 2024, and New Vehicle Efficiency Standard Act 2024; 
  • abolishing the Renewable Energy Target (RET), the Safeguard Mechanism, the Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) and the Clean Energy Investment Scheme;
  • abolishing the Department of Climate Change and all related agencies, regulations and programs (especially taxpayer and consumer subsidies renewable energy facilities) – this is anticipated to save Australian taxpayers at least $30 billion a year; 
  • banning offshore wind installations; 
  • banning renewable energy installations and transmission lines on Australian agricultural land, or where they constitute negative impacts on native forests or animal species, or an increased bushfire risk; and 
  • mandating the use of environmental rehabilitation bonds on all energy projects to address any impacts when equipment and infrastructure reaches the end of its useful life – this will require companies which build and operate energy installations to pay for cleaning up those sites and disposing of exhausted infrastructure when installations shut down, rather than taxpayers. 

‘Net zero’ is destroying Australia

The real impacts of ‘net zero’

Embracing Australian coal

Embracing Australian gas

Embracing nuclear