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.
The AEMC is currently considering 3 separate, but related, rule change proposals relating to a particular form of demand response in the NEM as noted here. Given our experience in supporting the growth of different forms of demand response in…
In a development closely related to the AEMC’s call for submissions on the incorporation of Negawatts in the price setting and dispatch process , we note that (on 20th December 2018) the AEMO submitted a rule change request for the…
On the 20th of April, the COAG’s Energy Council released a discussion paper exploring how to transition to a ‘two-sided market’ for electricity in Australia’s National Electricity Market as part of the transition to ‘NEM 2.0’.
Last month, the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) published it’s review of the Demand Management Incentive Scheme (DMIS) reports submitted by a number of recipients for the 2014, 2013-14 and 2014-15 reporting periods. The Demand Management Incentive Scheme (DMIS) is a research…