Energy policies in Australia need to be driven by ‘economics and engineering’

Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy Ted O’Brien says if the Opposition gets into government at the next federal election, they will come at Australia’s energy policies from a “very different angle”. Mr O’Brien told Sky News host Chris Kenny that instead of coming at it politically, it needs to be driven by “economics and engineering”. “So that we actually have a total system cost planned for the Australian grid. “That means a balanced mix of technologies. “Each technology doing what it’s best doing on that grid.”