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Policy & Planning

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

Jul 30, 2020

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How electricity market rule reforms could mean more sun for everyone
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.
Mark Byrne

Jul 16, 2020

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Planning for the unknown: Lessons for energy sector from Covid-19
The current structure and governance of the electricity market in Australia is not fit for purpose to meet known and unknown challenges.
Mark Byrne

Mar 26, 2020

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Renewables

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

Dec 13, 2019

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Policy & Planning

Bushfires should make us think about energy resilience, and micro-grids
One solution to the risk of bushfires is to rely more on each other for our energy supply.
Mark Byrne

Nov 15, 2019

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Policy & Planning

How local energy can boost Australia’s climate change resilience
New discussion paper from Total Environment Centre and Renew argues small-scale generation, supported by local storage and microgrids can increase network resilience.
Mark Byrne

Sep 12, 2019

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Renewables

Goodbye energy consumers, hello energy citizens
Power is literally shifting to the people, and we have only just started to conceptualise what that might mean for consumers as energy citizens.
Mark Byrne

Jun 14, 2019

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Policy & Planning

How sharing solar, batteries and EVs will make energy system more resilient
Electric vehicles and V2G technology will play a key role in helping consumers use their solar and batteries to make their grids more resilient.
Mark Byrne

Apr 5, 2019

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Other Good Stuff

Cross about subsidies: The equity implications of rooftop solar in Australia
There are some simple, cheap and equitable solutions to some of the concerns raised about cross-subsidies to and from rooftop solar.
Mark Byrne

Dec 21, 2018

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Solar

Here comes the sun, but don’t panic
Beware the latest rooftop solar scare campaign from the networks. There are more important things to do than to demonise solar households.
Mark Byrne

Oct 12, 2018

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Policy & Planning

The fall and rise of demand response, and the power of “negawatts”
In the crazy world of Australian climate and energy policy, if you wait long enough, an idea killed off by one government eventually comes back and saves the day.
Mark Byrne

Sep 6, 2018

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Spark of life: There’s electricity in nature
Why electricity is more than just a means to various ends.
Mark Byrne

Jun 13, 2018

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