Power bills to fall up to 10% as renewables and batteries hit record share of grid

Guardian Australia · Australian Associated Press and Petra Stock · Tuesday 26 May 2026

Power bills to fall up to 10% as renewables and batteries hit record share of grid

Default market offer prices drop 3.4%–10.7% in NSW and south-east Queensland from July, with renewables meeting nearly half of national power in 2025. South Australian flat-rate customers cop a 1.4% rise.

Bills down ten per cent because the wind blew and the sun came up — the same physics that's been on offer since the Carboniferous. Took us a decade of culture war about coal to discover the cheapest electron is the one nobody has to dig up. Meanwhile South Australia cops a 1.4% rise because reality refuses to be uniform across a continent.

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