One Nation has unveiled a new energy policy for Victoria that would boost gas exploration, scrap two major renewable energy zones, and reverse the state's long-standing ban on nuclear power. Federal leader Pauline Hanson and Victorian leader Warren Pickering launched the plan at the Loy Yang coal plant in the Latrobe Valley, arguing the state needs a more reliable energy mix built around coal and gas rather than renewables. The policy could prove significant ahead of November's state election, as One Nation seeks to capitalise on regional discontent over transmission projects and its recent by-election win in Western Australia.

Under the plan, One Nation would try to keep Loy Yang, which supplies 30 per cent of Victoria's electricity, running beyond its scheduled 2035 closure, potentially with private investment, though no costings were provided. The party would abolish the Western and Coastal Renewable Energy Zones, strip VicGrid of its powers to compulsorily acquire land for transmission projects, and scrap the contentious VNI West transmission line. It would also back offshore gas exploration, new coal investment and repeal of Victoria's 1983 nuclear ban. Hanson separately pledged to wipe fines imposed on farmers who denied planners access to their land, telling them not to pay ahead of an expected "big change" in November.