SA opposition leader seeks energy meeting

South Australian Opposition Leader Steven Marshall has sought a meeting with newly-appointed federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg to discuss ways to bring down the state's surging power prices.

The state government last week took the extraordinary step of asking a private energy supplier to fire up a previously mothballed power station in Adelaide when a combination of factors, including a planned interconnector outage, depleted electricity supplies and sent spot prices soaring.

"The Weatherill government's shocking incompetence in energy policy has delivered skyrocketing electricity prices that pose a deadly threat to industry and jobs in South Australia ... I'll be impressing on minister Frydenberg the need for the federal government to turn its full attention to the issue," Mr Marshall said on Wednesday.