"The current Australian Prime Minister has asked me to meet with him in a couple of weeks and just sort of talk about the general situation here in Australia and I’m not an expert at it but I know the cost of power is astronomically high," Mr Habul said. "So I’m looking forward to speaking to the Prime Minister and hopefully understand a bit better why, particularly in Queensland, the rates are ridiculous." Australian electricity prices are currently one of the highest in the world, and are a rising economic and political issue, as energy prices increased 12.3 per cent over 2017 alone, and prices forecast are to only increase further. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission found Australian consumers are paying between $100 to $200 more for electricity than what could be considered reasonable, while a recent McKell Institute report found this could rise by up to $430 more on average by the end of 2019. The federal government has actively worked with energy generators and retailers and outlined new national energy policies in order to drive down the prices, but there has been little headway made.

Mr Habul said Australia’s energy landscape is undergoing a dramatic transition, and the nation needs to turn away from coal. "Our generation is the end of traditional energy," Mr Habul said. "Coal in itself is finished; they’re closing coal plants everywhere. Natural gas was the next best solution. Most coal plants in the US have been shut down and switched to natural gas. "Solar is now cheaper than natural gas and the latest advancements in solar cell technology put us at twice the output of the current panel in the next four years and at one-tenth of the cost. There is enough sunlight that hits the earth in one day to power the earth for a year, and we dig coal and we burn it, it’s fundamentally wrong." Mr Habul also forecast that Australian households will defect en masse from the grid, with every home powered by solar panels and batteries.