Hansard debates

Mrs McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (12:50): My question is for the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change. The Essential Services Commission recently decided to reduce the regulated minimum solar feed-in tariff for Victorian customers from 12 cents per kilowatt hour to 10.2 cents per kilowatt hour, effective 1 July. This is all while electricity costs are going through the roof in Victoria under the Labor government. A constituent of mine in Warrnambool alerted me to this important issue. My constituent asked:

What bubble … do these Public Servants live in.

Why should we get less for generating power whilst the state just allow Electricity Cost increases to go into the stratosphere.

I concur with my constituent and ask the minister on his behalf and mine: why has the solar feed-in tariff decreased while electricity prices have also increased?