SA WATER customers are locked into a 20-year contract to pay millions of dollars for expensive green electricity for the state’s mothballed desalination plant.
Inquiries by adelaidenow have revealed that despite the plant not being needed until the next drought, SA Water has already signed a two-decade-long deal that forces it to pay a minimum amount every year for green electricity.
The cost will add to water bills, which have already increased on average from $300 a decade ago to almost $900 this year.
The deal locks SA Water into paying about $50 per megawatt hour, despite the price now dropping to $30 and despite a consultant advising against the deal.
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