Mark Byrne, Author at RenewEconomy

Peer-to-peer trading, VPPs, vehicle to home and grid, community batteries, solar gardens: the possibilities are many, but they will be stuck in the slow lane without fundamental grid reform.

Battery Climate Markets Renewables Storage

One in, all in. Making community scale batteries work in the NEM

Mark Byrne30 July 202030 July 2020

Community-scale batteries are all the rage on Western Australia's government-run grid. And what's not to like? But what about the rest of Australia?

Climate Other Good Stuff Renewables Solar

How electricity market rule reforms could mean more sun for everyone

Mark Byrne16 July 202016 July 2020

Fundamental to our proposal is the idea of net market benefit: Where rooftop solar exports create value greater than their costs, then costs can be recovered from all consumers.

Australian Federal Government Coronavirus Governments Insight Resource Efficiency Smart Energy

Planning for the unknown: Lessons for energy sector from Covid-19

Mark Byrne26 March 202026 March 2020

The current structure and governance of the electricity market in Australia is not fit for purpose to meet known and unknown challenges.

Australian Federal Government Battery Governments Renewables Rooftop PV Solar Storage

Energy rule-maker rues reality, rejects real reform in S.A. blackout response

Mark Byrne13 December 2019

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AEMC seems to view distributed energy as a problem rather than an opportunity when it comes to maintaining system resilience in the face of weather events or cyberattacks.

Ausnet Climate micro-grids Smart Energy Utilities

Bushfires should make us think about energy resilience, and micro-grids

Mark Byrne15 November 2019

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One solution to the risk of bushfires is to rely more on each other for our energy supply.

Climate Governments

How local energy can boost Australia’s climate change resilience

Mark Byrne12 September 2019

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New discussion paper from Total Environment Centre and Renew argues small-scale generation, supported by local storage and microgrids can increase network resilience.