In accordance with the requirements of clauses 5.13.1 (g) – (h) of the the National Electricity Rules (NER), SA Power Networks have released their Demand Side Engagement document. The document details SA Power Network’s strategy for: enabling the connection of embedded…
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…
The Australian Energy Regulator have invited all demand response stakeholders in the NEM to participate in an interactive workshop to discuss the development of a new demand management incentive scheme and innovation allowance mechanism in Australia. The open workshop will be held…
The state-owned Hydro Tasmania have agreed to give industrial energy users compensation for reducing production during Tasmania’s ongoing energy crisis. The Australian newspaper has published some updated numbers on the the deals estimating that the energy users are being paid…
SA Power Networks have begun the proposal period as they attempt to address a projected distribution limitation on Kangaroo Island, 112km south west of Adelaide. An existing radial 33kV submarine cable supplies the island and is nearing it’s designed life…
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…
Last month Endeavour Energy published it’s final assessment on the Box Hill and Box Hill North Greenfield Supply Areas. The report attempts to demonstrate the basis for an option to address the network limitations within the area. Two options were evaluated in…
In 2011, AusNet Services released the details of a planned residential battery storage trial which was mentioned in their DMIA Annual Report. The trial used stationary batteries connected to residential homes with the main objectives being; to provide network demand…
Earlier today Paul McArdle from WattClarity published this article which commented on Tasmania’s unfolding energy crisis. Paul mentions that some of the biggest energy users in the state are helping to conserve precious water supplies by agreeing to some substantial reductions…
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…
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…
Essential Energy has published their 2015 Distribution Annual Planning Report (DAPR) which outlines the planning of all of the company’s assets and activities that would materially affect the performance of their network. The main purposes of the DAPR include providing…
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) CEO, Ivor Frischknecht has penned this article for Hello Grid which discusses a ‘grid revolution’ that is slowly emerging throughout Australia. One question that the article poses is how to bridge the gap between…
The AEMO are now taking expressions of interest in order to recruit members for the Reliability and Emergency Reserve Trader (RERT) Panel in preparation for the upcoming summer. The closing date for expressions of interest is 27 November 2015. The…
The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has released a consultation paper on COAG Energy Council’s proposal to create a demand response mechanism as well as relaxing the requirements under National Electricity Rules, to provide ancillary services to AEMO. The text…
The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has today opened the consultation period on a rule change request received from the Snowy Hydro Corporation that relates to the requirements in the National Electricity Rules requiring scheduled loads to participate in the…
Jemena has recently published Stage One, the Non-Network Options Report, of two Regulatory Investment Tests for Distribution (RIT-Ds). The purpose of the RIT-D is to rank various distribution investment options and identify the option that will maximise the present value…
Essential Energy is working closely with the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney to develop online interactive maps with key information of network constraints and planned investment to enable an open market network planning and…
Earlier this week Paul McArdle posted an article to WattClarity after speaking at All-Energy in early October. His presentation (with narration included) from the conference is available here:
Last week, Paul McArdle from Global-Roam posted this article to WattClarity. Paul is booked in to speak at the 2015 All Energy conference about what role Demand Response might play in a future environment where intermittent generation sources supply a significantly higher…