James Stevens (Sturt, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have some good news. Today the Essential Services Commission of South Australia released figures showing that electricity prices in my home state have fallen by an average of $111 a year for retail household customers. This is the third year in a row of reducing electricity prices in South Australia. The year before it was an average of $96 per household bill, and the year before that it was $62. So over the last 2½ years the average household electricity bill in South Australia has fallen by almost $270. You can contrast that with the last two years of the previous Labor government, where prices went up by over $400 a year for the average household electricity bill in South Australia.

It's great to see that the Morrison and Marshall governments are working together to reduce electricity prices in South Australia. One of the really good partnerships has been the Home Battery Scheme, which is a partnership between the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, at the federal level, and the state government. They are hoping to roll out 50,000 batteries linked to solar panel generation across the state. This is one of many things that are contributing to electricity prices coming down. I'm excited to see the news today of a further drop of over $100, but we have only just begun. We want to keep getting electricity prices down and make sure South Australia is the most competitive place to live and do business in the country.