Last month Endeavour Energy published it’s final assessment on the Box Hill and Box Hill North Greenfield Supply Areas. The report attempts to demonstrate the basis for an option to address the network limitations within the area. Two options were evaluated in…
In 2011, AusNet Services released the details of a planned residential battery storage trial which was mentioned in their DMIA Annual Report. The trial used stationary batteries connected to residential homes with the main objectives being; to provide network demand…
Earlier today Paul McArdle from WattClarity published this article which commented on Tasmania’s unfolding energy crisis. Paul mentions that some of the biggest energy users in the state are helping to conserve precious water supplies by agreeing to some substantial reductions…
On request of the AEMC, The Brattle Group have reviewed how demand response participates in wholesale electricity markets in a range of jurisdictions. The review formed part of the consultation stage of the Demand Response Mechanism and Ancillary Services Unbundling…
I was on holidays at the time but one of the others in the team pointed out ABC’s Catalyst show featuring the emergence of the Reposit Power model of providing Demand Response in the NEM by coordinating between residential energy…
Essential Energy has published their 2015 Distribution Annual Planning Report (DAPR) which outlines the planning of all of the company’s assets and activities that would materially affect the performance of their network. The main purposes of the DAPR include providing…
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) CEO, Ivor Frischknecht has penned this article for Hello Grid which discusses a ‘grid revolution’ that is slowly emerging throughout Australia. One question that the article poses is how to bridge the gap between…
The AEMO are now taking expressions of interest in order to recruit members for the Reliability and Emergency Reserve Trader (RERT) Panel in preparation for the upcoming summer. The closing date for expressions of interest is 27 November 2015. The…
The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has released a consultation paper on COAG Energy Council’s proposal to create a demand response mechanism as well as relaxing the requirements under National Electricity Rules, to provide ancillary services to AEMO. The text…
The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has today opened the consultation period on a rule change request received from the Snowy Hydro Corporation that relates to the requirements in the National Electricity Rules requiring scheduled loads to participate in the…
Jemena has recently published Stage One, the Non-Network Options Report, of two Regulatory Investment Tests for Distribution (RIT-Ds). The purpose of the RIT-D is to rank various distribution investment options and identify the option that will maximise the present value…
Essential Energy is working closely with the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney to develop online interactive maps with key information of network constraints and planned investment to enable an open market network planning and…