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…
Read MoreAdding 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 Thursday 24th June 2021, the AEMO opened registration for Demand Response Service Providers (DRSPs). We received an email about this, as would have any other WDR stakeholders known to AEMO. Organisations who wish to apply for registration for this…
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.
The AER has published the latest notice concerning the Wholesale Demand Response Mechanism due to take effect later this year, with submissions on this paper open until the 23rd of April 2021.
Another submissions deadline is approaching as the market inches closer towards the planned implementation of the Wholesale Demand Response Mechanism (WDRM) in October 2021.
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).
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…
Leaders of the AEMC, AEMO and AER have come together to propose that the implementation of five minute settlement be delayed by 12 months in response to the impacts of COVID-19 on the energy industry.
On the 20th of April, the COAG’s Energy Council released a discussion paper exploring how to transition to a ‘two-sided market’ for electricity in Australia’s National Electricity Market as part of the transition to ‘NEM 2.0’.
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…
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
Yesterday on WattClarity, Paul McArdle wrote out some of his thoughts on whether the AEMC’s proposed centralised Negawatt dispatch mechanism (A.K.A. wholesale demand response mechanism) is a step in the right direction in the context of the bigger energy transition….
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…
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…