It’s Sunday 24th October 2021 and the new Wholesale Demand Response Mechanism (WDRM) – perhaps better understood as a Centralised Negawatt Dispatch Mechanism – has commenced. On Friday 22nd October the AEMO noted: “This Sunday, 24 October, the National Electricity…
Adding to the flurry of last minute activity just prior to the start of the Wholesale Demand Response Mechanism, on Friday 22nd October the AER released its Participation Guidelines for participants bidding WDRM who will start bidding Negawatts into the…
On 18th March, the AEMO published Second Stage documents on Negawatt Baseline Eligibility, and is seeking submissions on these drafts by 8th April 2021.
On Thursday 25th March 2021 the AEMO published their Final Determination on the WDR Guidelines (which starts operating 24th October 2021). Here’s where you can find them.
Submissions should be forwarded to AEMO by COB Friday 29 January 2021 on their Draft Report to consult on proposed amendments to Market and System Operation Procedures and Guidelines (Wholesale Demand Response).
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.
This morning (Thursday 14th November) the AEMC has published a 35-page information paper about the potential for a shift to a two-sided market
Don’t have much time today to elaborate on this, but worth noting that the AEMC today (Thu 18th July) released a draft determination for the implementation of a Centralized Negawatt Dispatch Mechanism, which will mean that Negawatts are treated as…
We’ve had several people raise concerns about the way in which the ESB’s Retailer Reliability Obligation (RRO) could inadvertently end up killing the form of demand response that’s supported the NEM over 15+ years and helped to maintain levels of security of supply at the levels we have experienced. We’re starting to take a look…
Earlier today on WattClarity here, Chris Thompson at Amber Electric posted about their experiences (as a start up energy service company) in assisting their growing customer base of residential energy users in NSW and South Australia in making the most…
Last week, I posted this brief summary of our 15+ year journey with the growth of Demand Response in the NEM. Over the course of this journey, we have continued to bump up against a number of barriers to our…
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 15th November 2018 the AEMC published this notice, inviting submissions regarding three different rule change proposals received to follow a COAG Energy Council request for the AEMC to look into This followed both: The AEMC’s earlier (2015) review of…
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…
A quick note, at the end of the day, to link to this article on WattClarity noting the dispatch of Reserve Trader on a very hot day in the south-east of the NEM.
Following the announcement 10 days ago, the following notice landed in my mailbox this morning. I have copied it here for those who are interested. Request for Information In May 2017, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and the…
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)…
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…
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…