In this first of a five-part series I want to focus on the meaning of key terms. I continue to have conversations where people are using demand side management, demand response, energy conservation, and energy efficiency interchangeably. They all mean…
In my previous articles on electricity pool pass-through and Demand Response (see articles for SA, QLD, NSW and VIC) I presented historical pool price data over the last two years and compared that with indicative retail pricing to indicate the…
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…
Western Suburbs Leagues Club registered their interest to participate in COzero’s demand response trial program. They were notified at 12:00 pm on the 14th of January, 2016 about an impending demand response event to occur that day between 2 and…
Given our keen interest* in all forms of Demand Response operating within the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM), it was with interest that we noted this media release from AGL Energy a couple weeks ago about their trial of how…
This is the last of an initial series of articles about the opportunities for end users in the mainland regions of the National Electricity Market to save costs by purchasing electricity at pool prices and adopting a Demand Response strategy…
Last month I wrote about what happened with pool prices over 2014-15 in South Australia and Queensland and the opportunity for savings with pool price pass-through strategy and DSM. This week we will have a look at the opportunity in…
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…
In early February I wrote this article about the electricity cost tsunami hitting SA businesses and what they could do to avoid the enormous price increases. I followed this up this month with a review of what January and February would…
1 January 2016 was the start date for the new “high price” contracts for SA business consumers that renewed their retail supply contracts in the second half of 2015. Quite a few consumers decided not to lock in the high…
This PG Energy customer operates a cold store in Brisbane and has an electricity consumption requirement of 500-600 KW . The customer also has a 1,200KW back up diesel generator on site. On the 5th March 2015, Brisbane experienced a…
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…
I have written previously about the coming energy cost tsunami in WattClarity. Well, the electricity levee in South Australia has finally broken after severe cracking and the resultant tsunami is now swamping business consumers coming out of contract in 2016….
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…