Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

Wind power fell to 2½ per cent of supply yesterday in South Australia. At times, it can provide up to 80 per cent. So the whole problem was the failure to provide sufficient wind. The only wind blowing in South Australia is the hot air of the Labor Party. I suppose the member for Port Adelaide thinks that the market operator could have fixed the blackout last September, where 1.7 million people lost their power. I suppose he thinks the operator could have fixed the blackout last December. I suppose he thinks the operator could have fixed the blackout in January. And now we have got one in February.

The member for Port Adelaide asked a serious question about what the market operator thinks about the system in South Australia. The reality is—

Opposition members interjecting—

This what the market operator said last year before the blackout:

Initial challenges are more acute in South Australia, due to the combination of its generation mix …

The fact is that they have the world's highest proportion—

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