Southern Metropolitan Region
John BERGER (Southern Metropolitan) (12:38): (270) My constituency question is for the Minister for the State Electricity Commission in the other place Minister D’Ambrosio. While Kennett privatised the energy network in the 1990s, the Andrews Labor government is bringing back the SEC and state-owned energy, and we have got a mandate to do so. At last year’s state election Victorians voted overwhelmingly to bring back the SEC, because Victorians know that our plan will lower power bills and supercharge our renewable energy revolution. The SEC will push down wholesale prices. It will bring 4.5 gigawatts of new power generation into the grid. That is the equivalent of Loy Yang A. And we have not wasted a day in getting on with it. I am proud to say our renewables revolution will create at least 59,000 meaningful, safe and secure jobs. My question to the minister is this: how will households in the Southern Metro Region benefit from government-owned energy through our plan to bring back the SEC?