Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

It is driving investment in new renewable energy sources and it is reducing emissions. Emissions in the national electricity market fell by 7.4 per cent in the first 11 months—

Opposition senators interjecting—

I know those opposite do not want to accept simple, straightforward facts. The emissions in the national electricity market fell by 7.4 per cent in the first 11 months of carbon pricing. That is a reduction of 12 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. We have also seen electricity generation from renewable energy that is sold on the national electricity market increase by almost 30 per cent. It is doing this— (Time expired)