South Australia’s power outage last week has highlighted a political row between the country’s federal and state governments over renewable energy that will likely limit action following an emergency meeting of ministers.

The meeting of state and federal energy ministers, which still has no published agenda, was called after last week’s black out that left South Australia, a major wine producer and traditional manufacturing hub, without power for nearly 24 hours after severe storms and thousands of lightning strikes.

Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull – leader of the country’s ruling conservative government that historically has supported traditional coal and gas-fired power generation – blamed South Australia’s high dependence on renewable power generation for the outage.

However, the Australian Energy Market Operator reached an early conclusion that severe weather caused the outage, but made no comment on whether the blackout could have been avoided. State officials accused Turnbull of letting ideology drive his comments.

The row between federal and state officials exposes a growing rift over Australia’s energy policy that should lead to a hostile meeting that is unlikely to formulate any concrete recommendations.