A Liberal Senator has claimed the current energy crisis would not have unfolded the same way under a Coalition government, arguing Labor has “demonised” coal and gas.
The Australian Energy Market Operator was forced to suspend the spot market for the first time since its creation in 1998 - which includes New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and the ACT - on Wednesday afternoon.
“I don’t accept that this would have been the same under the Coalition,” she told Sky News Australia’s Chris Kenny. The decision to suspend the market comes amid skyrocketing power prices which led AEMO to set an energy price cap on Sunday, limiting the price of wholesale electricity to $300 a megawatt per hour.
But Energy Minister Matt Kean said the issue had been fixed and would be turned on to support the power grid amid"tight" supplies.
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