House debates Questions without Notice
Renewable Energy
Madeleine King Brand, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Trade
2:45 pm
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Water. Yesterday the member for Mallee said about solar panels:
They don't work in the dark, and neither do our wind farms.
Does the minister agree?
Keith Pitt Hinkler, National Party, Minister for Resources and Water
2:46 pm
I thank the honourable member for their question. The member Mallee is right: there are wind turbines that, when there is no wind over night, don't work. They don't work during the day when there is no wind. That is the nature of intermittent generation. That is just the reality of life.