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 rule change. Submissions for the rule change closed on the 10th of December, 2015.
In their review, The Brattile group list observations about demand response participation in wholesale energy markets, ancillary services markets and capacity markets based on their experience. The summary of the review can be found here.
Following the deferral of the AEMC’s final rule on the establishment of what we see as a ‘Centralized Negawatt Dispatch Mechanism’ we take a quick look at some history.
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…
On the 12th of March, 2020 the AEMC released a second draft determination on the implementation of a wholesale demand response mechanism in the market – what we’re calling the ‘Negawatt Dispatch Mechanism’. In addition, the AEMO published a high-level…
