Energy Minister Matthew Groom says the government is proud of the actions it took during the state’s energy crisis.
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Mr Groom will appear at the Parliamentary energy inquiry, after previously withdrawing from giving evidence, to highlight how “critical” the government's actions were in “keeping the lights on in Tasmania”.
“We will also take the opportunity to dispel the many myths relating to the energy crisis that have been pushed by the opposition,” he said.
Record low dam levels across the state and an extended Basslink outage sparked the inquiry, which began in June.
Mr Groom spruiked the success of the government’s Energy Supply Plan, claiming without it the state’s energy security would have been “seriously compromised”.
“Analysis shows that without the Government’s proactive decisions to install temporary generation and manage voluntary load reductions of our major industrials Tasmania’s dam levels would have fallen to as low as 5.2 per cent,” he said.
Hydro Tasmania recorded the lowest dam levels at 12.5 per cent.
Mr Groom said opposition Leader Bryan Green made “false claims including scaring people about household power prices skyrocketing [and] the imminent prospect of rolling brown-outs (a reduction in or restriction on the availability of electrical power in a particular area) and blackouts”.
Opposition spokesman Josh Willie called on Mr Groom and treasurer Peter Gutwein to come clean on whether or not they were told to sell the Tamar Valley Power Station.
“Anything short of that is a complete failure and I have no confidence...they will do that given their track record,” he said.
“I think Bryan Green showed courage fronting the committee, courage lacking from Minister Groom.
“I think the public will be very interested in Minister Groom’s thoughts this week on what he did and when.”
Mr Willie called for the government to answer every question put to them at the Public Accounts Committee hearing in the interest of transparency.
“I think the public would be interested on [Mr Groom’s] details on what he did and when.”
Mr Groom said he looked forward to discussing future steps for Tasmania to ensure the state does not experience another energy security event.