‘The dishonesty beggars belief’: Shadow energy minister Dan Tehan hits out at Albanese after bombshell energy price report

Shadow energy minister Dan Tehan has called for “honesty” and “transparency” from the Labor government, as energy CEOs say Australians “have not cottoned on” to the true cost of the renewables transition.

The Australian Energy Council surveyed some of Australia’s top energy CEOs under anonymity in a report released this week.

The chiefs expressed concerns the renewables transition would endanger chances of affordability in the short-term and foster unrealistic expectations amongst the public.

“The biggest risk to this whole transition is that the general public haven’t really cottoned on to the fact that there’s a cost to the transition, and power bills will go up for a while before they go down,” one retailer’s CEO told the council, adding, “governments have made promises about bill re