Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has slammed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for promulgating "ignorant rubbish" in the South Australian energy debate, as Labor states and territories rejected the PM's pitch for a standardised renewable energy target.

Mr Turnbull, once known as the Coalition's strongest advocate for redressing climate change, used Wednesday evening's statewide blackout to condemn "extremely aggressive, extremely unrealistic" renewable energy targets set by Labor state governments.

It followed comments from Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg and South Australian senator Nick Xenophon that conflated the power outage with the state's heavy reliance on wind power - an explanation rejected by energy experts, who said the blackout was due to the destruction caused by wild weather.

The PM singled out Victoria and Queensland as other states he said had "paid little or no attention to energy security" in their pursuit of cleaner energy. But on Friday, Mr Andrews accused Mr Turnbull of spouting "anti-climate change, anti-fact nonsense" and of resembling his predecessor Tony Abbott, a climate change sceptic.