ABC corrects Alan Jones's Q&A claim that boosted cost of wind power tenfold

The Conversation media outlet checked the figures Jones quoted on Q&A and found claim for cost of wind power was grossly overstated

The ABC has had to correct two statements made by Alan Jones on Q&A last week, including one that put the cost of wind power 10 times higher than it actually is.

"Eighty per cent of Australian energy comes from coal, coal-fired power, and it's about $79 a kilowatt hour," Jones said on Q&A on 20 July. "Wind power is about $1,502 a kilowatt hour. That is unaffordable. If you take that power and feed it into the grid, then every person watching this program has electricity bills going through the roof."