❓ Question on Notice regarding Western Power's demand management strategies, including negotiating with commercial customers to reduce electricity use and utilising backup generators in exchange for discounts. The Minister defends the strategies as sound energy policy.
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(1) Is it correct, as reported in The West Australian of 24 September 2004, that Western Power is negotiating with commercial customers to cut their electricity use if an energy crisis arises over the summer? (2) Is it also correct that Western Power is negotiating contracts with the proprietors of major office towers in Perth that would result in the use of their privately owned backup generators on 24 hours’ notice for up to three days at a time in exchange for Western Power discounts over the summer? (3) Does the minister support these panic moves by Western Power, given that the utility recently reported a $241 million profit? Mr E.S. RIPPER
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(1)-(3) The member for Churchlands unfortunately reveals her total ignorance of a sound energy policy. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: Demand management is a well-known tactic and strategy for dealing with peak electricity demand. Every responsible electricity supply industry in the world is moving to institute demand management. When those events occurred in February, one of the requirements that the Government put on Western Power was for it to do more about demand management. The situation is that there has been modest growth in baseload demand but very strong growth in peak demand. Some of the peak generation capacity that must be installed to meet that peak demand operates for perhaps 20 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars in generation equipment that operates for only 20, 40 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars to install the distribution infrastructure that is required to meet a load that might occur for only 20 or 40 hours a year. There is a more economic way to do this. There might well be customers who would be prepared, in return for a payment, to not use electricity at times of peak electricity demand. That might be a more economic way of providing the required electricity supply rather than investing in generation that is used for hardly any period at all. This is not uncommon; it is used across the world. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
(2) Is it also correct that Western Power is negotiating contracts with the proprietors of major office towers in Perth that would result in the use of their privately owned backup generators on 24 hours’ notice for up to three days at a time in exchange for Western Power discounts over the summer? (3) Does the minister support these panic moves by Western Power, given that the utility recently reported a $241 million profit? Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: (1)-(3) The member for Churchlands unfortunately reveals her total ignorance of a sound energy policy. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: Demand management is a well-known tactic and strategy for dealing with peak electricity demand. Every responsible electricity supply industry in the world is moving to institute demand management. When those events occurred in February, one of the requirements that the Government put on Western Power was for it to do more about demand management. The situation is that there has been modest growth in baseload demand but very strong growth in peak demand. Some of the peak generation capacity that must be installed to meet that peak demand operates for perhaps 20 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars in generation equipment that operates for only 20, 40 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars to install the distribution infrastructure that is required to meet a load that might occur for only 20 or 40 hours a year. There is a more economic way to do this. There might well be customers who would be prepared, in return for a payment, to not use electricity at times of peak electricity demand. That might be a more economic way of providing the required electricity supply rather than investing in generation that is used for hardly any period at all. This is not uncommon; it is used across the world. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
(3) Does the minister support these panic moves by Western Power, given that the utility recently reported a $241 million profit? Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: (1)-(3) The member for Churchlands unfortunately reveals her total ignorance of a sound energy policy. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: Demand management is a well-known tactic and strategy for dealing with peak electricity demand. Every responsible electricity supply industry in the world is moving to institute demand management. When those events occurred in February, one of the requirements that the Government put on Western Power was for it to do more about demand management. The situation is that there has been modest growth in baseload demand but very strong growth in peak demand. Some of the peak generation capacity that must be installed to meet that peak demand operates for perhaps 20 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars in generation equipment that operates for only 20, 40 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars to install the distribution infrastructure that is required to meet a load that might occur for only 20 or 40 hours a year. There is a more economic way to do this. There might well be customers who would be prepared, in return for a payment, to not use electricity at times of peak electricity demand. That might be a more economic way of providing the required electricity supply rather than investing in generation that is used for hardly any period at all. This is not uncommon; it is used across the world. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: (1)-(3) The member for Churchlands unfortunately reveals her total ignorance of a sound energy policy. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: Demand management is a well-known tactic and strategy for dealing with peak electricity demand. Every responsible electricity supply industry in the world is moving to institute demand management. When those events occurred in February, one of the requirements that the Government put on Western Power was for it to do more about demand management. The situation is that there has been modest growth in baseload demand but very strong growth in peak demand. Some of the peak generation capacity that must be installed to meet that peak demand operates for perhaps 20 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars in generation equipment that operates for only 20, 40 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars to install the distribution infrastructure that is required to meet a load that might occur for only 20 or 40 hours a year. There is a more economic way to do this. There might well be customers who would be prepared, in return for a payment, to not use electricity at times of peak electricity demand. That might be a more economic way of providing the required electricity supply rather than investing in generation that is used for hardly any period at all. This is not uncommon; it is used across the world. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
(1)-(3) The member for Churchlands unfortunately reveals her total ignorance of a sound energy policy. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: Demand management is a well-known tactic and strategy for dealing with peak electricity demand. Every responsible electricity supply industry in the world is moving to institute demand management. When those events occurred in February, one of the requirements that the Government put on Western Power was for it to do more about demand management. The situation is that there has been modest growth in baseload demand but very strong growth in peak demand. Some of the peak generation capacity that must be installed to meet that peak demand operates for perhaps 20 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars in generation equipment that operates for only 20, 40 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars to install the distribution infrastructure that is required to meet a load that might occur for only 20 or 40 hours a year. There is a more economic way to do this. There might well be customers who would be prepared, in return for a payment, to not use electricity at times of peak electricity demand. That might be a more economic way of providing the required electricity supply rather than investing in generation that is used for hardly any period at all. This is not uncommon; it is used across the world. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: Demand management is a well-known tactic and strategy for dealing with peak electricity demand. Every responsible electricity supply industry in the world is moving to institute demand management. When those events occurred in February, one of the requirements that the Government put on Western Power was for it to do more about demand management. The situation is that there has been modest growth in baseload demand but very strong growth in peak demand. Some of the peak generation capacity that must be installed to meet that peak demand operates for perhaps 20 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars in generation equipment that operates for only 20, 40 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars to install the distribution infrastructure that is required to meet a load that might occur for only 20 or 40 hours a year. There is a more economic way to do this. There might well be customers who would be prepared, in return for a payment, to not use electricity at times of peak electricity demand. That might be a more economic way of providing the required electricity supply rather than investing in generation that is used for hardly any period at all. This is not uncommon; it is used across the world. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: Demand management is a well-known tactic and strategy for dealing with peak electricity demand. Every responsible electricity supply industry in the world is moving to institute demand management. When those events occurred in February, one of the requirements that the Government put on Western Power was for it to do more about demand management. The situation is that there has been modest growth in baseload demand but very strong growth in peak demand. Some of the peak generation capacity that must be installed to meet that peak demand operates for perhaps 20 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars in generation equipment that operates for only 20, 40 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars to install the distribution infrastructure that is required to meet a load that might occur for only 20 or 40 hours a year. There is a more economic way to do this. There might well be customers who would be prepared, in return for a payment, to not use electricity at times of peak electricity demand. That might be a more economic way of providing the required electricity supply rather than investing in generation that is used for hardly any period at all. This is not uncommon; it is used across the world. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
Mr E.S. RIPPER: Demand management is a well-known tactic and strategy for dealing with peak electricity demand. Every responsible electricity supply industry in the world is moving to institute demand management. When those events occurred in February, one of the requirements that the Government put on Western Power was for it to do more about demand management. The situation is that there has been modest growth in baseload demand but very strong growth in peak demand. Some of the peak generation capacity that must be installed to meet that peak demand operates for perhaps 20 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars in generation equipment that operates for only 20, 40 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars to install the distribution infrastructure that is required to meet a load that might occur for only 20 or 40 hours a year. There is a more economic way to do this. There might well be customers who would be prepared, in return for a payment, to not use electricity at times of peak electricity demand. That might be a more economic way of providing the required electricity supply rather than investing in generation that is used for hardly any period at all. This is not uncommon; it is used across the world. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
(2) Is it also correct that Western Power is negotiating contracts with the proprietors of major office towers in Perth that would result in the use of their privately owned backup generators on 24 hours’ notice for up to three days at a time in exchange for Western Power discounts over the summer? (3) Does the minister support these panic moves by Western Power, given that the utility recently reported a $241 million profit? Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: (1)-(3) The member for Churchlands unfortunately reveals her total ignorance of a sound energy policy. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: Demand management is a well-known tactic and strategy for dealing with peak electricity demand. Every responsible electricity supply industry in the world is moving to institute demand management. When those events occurred in February, one of the requirements that the Government put on Western Power was for it to do more about demand management. The situation is that there has been modest growth in baseload demand but very strong growth in peak demand. Some of the peak generation capacity that must be installed to meet that peak demand operates for perhaps 20 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars in generation equipment that operates for only 20, 40 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars to install the distribution infrastructure that is required to meet a load that might occur for only 20 or 40 hours a year. There is a more economic way to do this. There might well be customers who would be prepared, in return for a payment, to not use electricity at times of peak electricity demand. That might be a more economic way of providing the required electricity supply rather than investing in generation that is used for hardly any period at all. This is not uncommon; it is used across the world. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
(3) Does the minister support these panic moves by Western Power, given that the utility recently reported a $241 million profit? Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: (1)-(3) The member for Churchlands unfortunately reveals her total ignorance of a sound energy policy. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: Demand management is a well-known tactic and strategy for dealing with peak electricity demand. Every responsible electricity supply industry in the world is moving to institute demand management. When those events occurred in February, one of the requirements that the Government put on Western Power was for it to do more about demand management. The situation is that there has been modest growth in baseload demand but very strong growth in peak demand. Some of the peak generation capacity that must be installed to meet that peak demand operates for perhaps 20 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars in generation equipment that operates for only 20, 40 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars to install the distribution infrastructure that is required to meet a load that might occur for only 20 or 40 hours a year. There is a more economic way to do this. There might well be customers who would be prepared, in return for a payment, to not use electricity at times of peak electricity demand. That might be a more economic way of providing the required electricity supply rather than investing in generation that is used for hardly any period at all. This is not uncommon; it is used across the world. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: (1)-(3) The member for Churchlands unfortunately reveals her total ignorance of a sound energy policy. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: Demand management is a well-known tactic and strategy for dealing with peak electricity demand. Every responsible electricity supply industry in the world is moving to institute demand management. When those events occurred in February, one of the requirements that the Government put on Western Power was for it to do more about demand management. The situation is that there has been modest growth in baseload demand but very strong growth in peak demand. Some of the peak generation capacity that must be installed to meet that peak demand operates for perhaps 20 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars in generation equipment that operates for only 20, 40 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars to install the distribution infrastructure that is required to meet a load that might occur for only 20 or 40 hours a year. There is a more economic way to do this. There might well be customers who would be prepared, in return for a payment, to not use electricity at times of peak electricity demand. That might be a more economic way of providing the required electricity supply rather than investing in generation that is used for hardly any period at all. This is not uncommon; it is used across the world. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
(1)-(3) The member for Churchlands unfortunately reveals her total ignorance of a sound energy policy. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: Demand management is a well-known tactic and strategy for dealing with peak electricity demand. Every responsible electricity supply industry in the world is moving to institute demand management. When those events occurred in February, one of the requirements that the Government put on Western Power was for it to do more about demand management. The situation is that there has been modest growth in baseload demand but very strong growth in peak demand. Some of the peak generation capacity that must be installed to meet that peak demand operates for perhaps 20 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars in generation equipment that operates for only 20, 40 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars to install the distribution infrastructure that is required to meet a load that might occur for only 20 or 40 hours a year. There is a more economic way to do this. There might well be customers who would be prepared, in return for a payment, to not use electricity at times of peak electricity demand. That might be a more economic way of providing the required electricity supply rather than investing in generation that is used for hardly any period at all. This is not uncommon; it is used across the world. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: Demand management is a well-known tactic and strategy for dealing with peak electricity demand. Every responsible electricity supply industry in the world is moving to institute demand management. When those events occurred in February, one of the requirements that the Government put on Western Power was for it to do more about demand management. The situation is that there has been modest growth in baseload demand but very strong growth in peak demand. Some of the peak generation capacity that must be installed to meet that peak demand operates for perhaps 20 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars in generation equipment that operates for only 20, 40 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars to install the distribution infrastructure that is required to meet a load that might occur for only 20 or 40 hours a year. There is a more economic way to do this. There might well be customers who would be prepared, in return for a payment, to not use electricity at times of peak electricity demand. That might be a more economic way of providing the required electricity supply rather than investing in generation that is used for hardly any period at all. This is not uncommon; it is used across the world. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: Demand management is a well-known tactic and strategy for dealing with peak electricity demand. Every responsible electricity supply industry in the world is moving to institute demand management. When those events occurred in February, one of the requirements that the Government put on Western Power was for it to do more about demand management. The situation is that there has been modest growth in baseload demand but very strong growth in peak demand. Some of the peak generation capacity that must be installed to meet that peak demand operates for perhaps 20 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars in generation equipment that operates for only 20, 40 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars to install the distribution infrastructure that is required to meet a load that might occur for only 20 or 40 hours a year. There is a more economic way to do this. There might well be customers who would be prepared, in return for a payment, to not use electricity at times of peak electricity demand. That might be a more economic way of providing the required electricity supply rather than investing in generation that is used for hardly any period at all. This is not uncommon; it is used across the world. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
Mr E.S. RIPPER: Demand management is a well-known tactic and strategy for dealing with peak electricity demand. Every responsible electricity supply industry in the world is moving to institute demand management. When those events occurred in February, one of the requirements that the Government put on Western Power was for it to do more about demand management. The situation is that there has been modest growth in baseload demand but very strong growth in peak demand. Some of the peak generation capacity that must be installed to meet that peak demand operates for perhaps 20 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars in generation equipment that operates for only 20, 40 or 50 hours a year. The community, through its ownership of Western Power, invests millions and millions of dollars to install the distribution infrastructure that is required to meet a load that might occur for only 20 or 40 hours a year. There is a more economic way to do this. There might well be customers who would be prepared, in return for a payment, to not use electricity at times of peak electricity demand. That might be a more economic way of providing the required electricity supply rather than investing in generation that is used for hardly any period at all. This is not uncommon; it is used across the world. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is a requirement in our design of the electricity market to make provision for so-called demand side responses to be called into play in the future. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
The SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
Mr E.S. RIPPER: It is the economic, sensible and low cost way to meet peak electricity demand. If the Opposition thinks this is a silly approach, it is out of the touch with the business community. Western Power has had meetings with 200 customers on this matter, and Western Power reports to me that there has been very good cooperation and participation from the business community of Perth. I congratulate the business community of Perth for the way in which it has worked with Western Power on this issue. Western Power sought about 40 megawatts of demand management. It has advised me that, although the matter is not yet finalised, it is likely to receive suggestions that will involve about 90 megawatts of demand management; therefore, the demand management program has been one of the successes of the government approach. The Leader of the Opposition, that serial privatiser from the opposite side, that wonderful economic commentator, has revealed that he is right out of touch with modern management of electricity supply. The Leader of the Opposition should enter “demand management” into Google on his laptop and see how many hits come up. He will find that “demand management” is well adopted around the world as the means of dealing with peak electricity demand. His comments and those of his factional colleague the member for Churchlands reveal a woeful level of ignorance about the modern management of electricity supply. The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
The SPEAKER: Order! I call to order the members for Warren-Blackwood and Nedlands, the Leader of the National Party and the Leader of the Opposition.
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