On Thursday last week, the AEMC announced a final rule to the demand management incentive scheme with the aim to “encourage electricity distribution networks to make efficient decisions in relation to network expenditure, including investment in demand management.”.
The rule includes the introduction of separate objectives and principles to guide the AER in developing and applying an effective incentive scheme and innovation allowance, with the announcement stating “the rule amends the existing demand management incentive scheme arrangements to provide greater clarity to the Australian Energy Regulator and stakeholders in respect of how a demand management incentive scheme and a demand management innovation allowance should be designed and applied.
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…
Aurora Energy has outlined details of it’s demand management measures to the AER as part of it’s required reporting duties set out in their DMIS agreement. The document states that “as part of its response to the AER’s RIN for…
The AEMC has today announced that the proposed Wholesale Demand Response Mechanism (a.k.a ‘Negawatt Dispatch Mechanism’) is still on track to begin in October 2021. The AEMC’s press release stated that requests to delay the implementation timeline were considered due…
On the 4th of January 2017, the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) published a consultation paper to inform the development of a robust, best practice incentive scheme and allowance mechanism. As part of the process, the AER are asking interested stakeholders…
