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 Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) is calling for submissions on a proposal to create a new category of market participant who would have the ability to negotiate deals with energy users to offer demand response. The AEMC has issued…
Dan Hunt, Director-General of the Department of Mines and Energy, and Terry Wall, Director-General of the Environmental Protection Agency have penned an open letter to Mike Buckley, General Manager of the Australian Energy Regulator commenting on the paper “Potential development…
On 21st June 2018 the AEMC made a rule to re-establish the Reserve Trader in the NEM. This rule change had been requested by the AEMO following the (previously organised) sunset of the original Reserve Trader mechanism. This request ran…
The AEMC has asked for public submissions from stakeholders on the draft rule change requests from the Total Environment Centre (TEC) and the Council of Australian Governments’ Energy Council (COAG Energy Council). “The draft rule, if implemented, would amend the…
