Of course, this current - in the form of Chief Scientist Alan Finkel's report on the national electricity market - has already made it to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's office.

Among the potential recommendations could be that a percentage of the nation's energy mix must be produced from renewable energy sources.

But the report will also spell out some options to address the energy crisis, one hopes, at the same time as playing the role Australia should, as one of the globe's highest per capita generators of carbon emissions.

If decisive action is not taken, the 'crisis' in the energy market, and that of a warming globe, will only deepen.

Indeed, the Coalition party room will likely, in the weeks and months to come, again be given the choice between the current and former Prime Minister, on the same issue that deposed the current office-holder in favour of the former.

Canberrans, some of whom will be tasked with delivering any decision resulting from the Finkel report, were treated to some bad news this week.

Electricity and gas prices, are set to rise (yet again), mostly due to avoidable issues with the wholesale market.

The quantum the average ACT household will need to cough up: $333 a year extra for electricity and $247 a year more for gas, or a tidy $580 per annum on average.

This has long been not just a problem for policy-makers and industry roundtables, but an issue that is eating a hole in Australians hip-pockets.

It will ratchet up the pressure on people at a time of low wage growth, rising underemployment and record levels of household debt.

One can almost taste the foul flavour of home repossessions, irrespective of the perverse potential for such an adverse outcome to finally lower the entry barriers to first homebuyers.

Governments are voted out when the basic necessities can no longer be provided at an acceptable cost.

With less philosophy than Rousseau; many voters will, rightly or wrongly, see such long-term political failures as a breach of the implied social contract.

Perhaps the growing cost to consumers will produce the conditions needed for the political class to rise above the various rent-seekers and their objectives.

A radical change is unlikely - the current approach to paying polluters to reduce their emissions is likely to stay in one form or another.

But, with the salesman that is Scott Morrison at his side and a growing political imperative to act, perhaps this government can be the one to rise to the challenge, rather than attempt to spin its way out.

Rejecting any single production method - whether wind, solar, hydropower, gas or coal - is clearly not an immediate solution, although the market has begun to endorse some over the others.

Dr Finkel may be the voice that is needed to provide a commercial reason - cover, if you will - to a government in need of an excuse that will start to address the problem and avoid a backlash from the base.

But, if not, can the last person out, please turn the lights out?