On 19th May 2017, an announcement was made that AEMO would work together to pilot a demand response initiative to help manage tight supply/demand balances expected in future (such as in Victoria and South Australia for summer 2017-18).
There are press releases on the respective websites:
I did not see it in the Australian (contact me if there’s a reference I missed?)
Given our keen interest in, and sizeable support for, demand response (especially this type) we will look forward to learning more about this initiative. It may be that we can assist.
Frequent readers of our sister site, WattClarity, will have kept pace with the unfolding dramas stemming from a tight supply/demand balance in February 2017 – and in particular: Wednesday 8th February = load shedding at the end of the day…
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 Wednesday 24th May I was pleased to be able to attend the first day of the Annual Conference of the Energy User’s Association of Australia (EUAA) – an organisation representing many of Australia’s largest energy (i.e. electricity and gas)…
I was on holidays at the time but one of the others in the team pointed out ABC’s Catalyst show featuring the emergence of the Reposit Power model of providing Demand Response in the NEM by coordinating between residential energy…
