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…
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 4th of January 2017, the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) published a consultation paper to inform the development of a robust, best practice incentive scheme and allowance mechanism. As part of the process, the AER are asking interested stakeholders…
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 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…
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…
On Thursday last week, the AEMC announced a final rule to the demand management incentive scheme with the aim to “encourage electricity distribution networks to make efficient decisions in relation to network expenditure, including investment in demand management.”. The rule…
Aurora Energy has outlined details of it’s demand management measures to the AER as part of it’s required reporting duties set out in their DMIS agreement. The document states that “as part of its response to the AER’s RIN for…
Dan Hunt, Director-General of the Department of Mines and Energy, and Terry Wall, Director-General of the Environmental Protection Agency have penned an open letter to Mike Buckley, General Manager of the Australian Energy Regulator commenting on the paper “Potential development…