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…
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 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).
In an early Jan 2021 update, the ESB highlighted a report (published 14th Dec 2020) by Energy Synapse looking at Demand Response in the NEM. Here it is, and some initial comments.
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.
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 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…
Following the demand management workshop held on the 20th of September 2016 in Sydney, the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) have published all of the presentations and the breakout session notes from the workshop on their website. The published documents include…
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…
Global-Roam Pty Ltd has been supporting a range of large industrial energy users with their Demand Response services for a number of years. DemandResponse.com.au has been created by Global-Roam in the past few months to provide everyone within the energy…
AEMO have announced that they are in the process of conducting requests for expression of interest in their recruitment of members for the RERT Panel in preparation for the 2014-15 summer.