Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

What we've been told by the Australian Energy Market Operator is that the likelihood of a shortfall incident is between 39 and 43 per cent in Victoria and 26 and 33 per cent in South Australia, and that is a consequence of dispatchable power being driven out of the market by renewable energy.

Now, renewable energy is becoming more available and it's becoming cheaper, and we are undertaking the largest renewable energy project built in Australia since the first Snowy scheme. So, we don't make any challenge to renewable energy. But one of the things the Labor Party has forgotten is that the sun doesn't shine all the time and the wind doesn't blow all the time. So in their mindless incompetence, in their reckless idiocy, they have proceeded down the track—

Ms Husar interjecting—

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