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As a South Australian, where we have some of the highest solar, wind farm and battery uptakes in the world, and also some of the highest electricity rates too I will just let you know that no, you wouldn’t have been getting cheaper electricity even after it was built. Your usage will just go up to match supply.
Much like building roads only leads to more vehicles on the road.
The best you’d get is a temporary rebate. And cleaner electricity - that’s the real win, not the the lower prices. It’s more of an environmental project rather than a price pressure project, so you have cleaner air at least, which is worth the cost imo but ymmv.
Our usage is going up. They’re still pushing EVs and heat pumps. The problem is demand has been going up faster than supply, leading to higher prices
But even before that, shutting down the last coal power plant was well timed to when were were supposed to have wind farms online. Then they were delayed. I can only assume we import more from neighboring states, which is never cheap