AusNet Services release Demand Side Engagement Strategy

AusNet Services have released a report outlining their ongoing Demand Side Engagement Strategy. The report outlines AusNet’s history of non-network demand management and investigates process for potential non-network options. The objectives outlined in the executive summary state that the strategy will provide one of the principal mechanisms for:

• Developing opportunities for proactive engagement between SP AusNet and non-network service providers in developing solutions to network capacity augmentations;
• Providing transparency and clarity around the SP AusNet’s network system planning and development processes
• Facilitating positive engagement and interaction between SP AusNet and non-network proponents (and other interested parties and stakeholders)