Mr TURNBULL (Wentworth—Prime Minister) (14:16): The Minister for the Environment and Energy, whom I will invite to add to this answer, has just drawn to my attention a statement by the Australian Energy Market Operator from 10 February about New South Wales's electricity supply, in which it states, 'AEMO can also confirm that residential load shedding was not required at any point'—quite to the contrary of what the member for Port Adelaide just said. Opposition members interjecting— Mr Frydenberg: Another lie! Another lie! Another lie! Mr TURNBULL: The member for Port Adelaide said residential load shedding was required— The SPEAKER: The Minister for the Environment and Energy will come to the dispatch box and withdraw. Mr Frydenberg: I withdraw. Mr TURNBULL: The member for Port Adelaide said that there was residential load shedding in the state, and here we have a statement from AEMO, of which he must have been aware, saying that was not the case. As far as Tomago is concerned: it is a large base load customer for electricity in New South Wales. It is the practice with large base load customers to, by agreement, load shed—for which they are rewarded at times of very high peak demand. It is the way in which big customers like that—aluminium smelters being the biggest, obviously—are able to provide stabilisation and balance to the grid. What was put to us by the member for Port Adelaide is contradicted by AEMO. He is not here to defend himself or explain his misstatement, but it just shows how the Labor Party is deluded about energy. I will invite the minister to add to that answer.