❓ Question on Notice regarding the Premier's statement on the lack of long-term electricity market planning and energy security, questioning the former Minister for Energy's responsibilities and actions. The Premier deflects blame to the previous Labor government's market structure.
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I refer to the Premier's media release dated 10 April 2013 headed
Changes to Machinery of Government
, and specifically to the Premier's view that there has been a lack of longer-term planning on electricity market requirements, including energy security, and I ask:
(a) is longer-term planning on electricity market requirements, including energy security, a duty of the Minister for Energy;
(b) was this a requirement on the former Minister for Energy during the period of the first Government, September 2008 to March 2013;
(c) is longer-term planning on electricity market requirements, including energy security, an issue that should have been included in the Strategic Energy Initiative that was pursued during the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 by the former Minister for Energy, Hon Peter Collier;
(d) does the Premier have an explanation for why it was not included in the Strategic Energy Initiative; and
(e) does the Premier have an explanation for why the issue of longer-term planning on electricity market requirements, including energy security, was not achieved by the former Minister for Energy, Hon Peter Collier?
Changes to Machinery of Government
, and specifically to the Premier's view that there has been a lack of longer-term planning on electricity market requirements, including energy security, and I ask:
(a) is longer-term planning on electricity market requirements, including energy security, a duty of the Minister for Energy;
(b) was this a requirement on the former Minister for Energy during the period of the first Government, September 2008 to March 2013;
(c) is longer-term planning on electricity market requirements, including energy security, an issue that should have been included in the Strategic Energy Initiative that was pursued during the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 by the former Minister for Energy, Hon Peter Collier;
(d) does the Premier have an explanation for why it was not included in the Strategic Energy Initiative; and
(e) does the Premier have an explanation for why the issue of longer-term planning on electricity market requirements, including energy security, was not achieved by the former Minister for Energy, Hon Peter Collier?
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Answered
21 May 2013
Responded by
Hon C.J. Barnett
Response time
34 days
(a-e)The lack of coordinated longer-term planning on electricity markets, including energy security, is a consequence of the market structure introduced by the Labor Government in 2006. Hence the decision by this Government to address the shortcomings of the market structure in the South West Interconnected System.
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