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Fragility and resilience in the grid of the future
Simplicity doesn’t always equal efficiency, but it does usually equal reliability. A system with multiple layers of complexity is more vulnerable to breakdown.
Mark Byrne

Mar 26, 2018

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Utilities

How do you solve a problem like fixed charges?
Everyone hates the fixed charges on their electricity bills, so why do they keep going up? Is it because retailers take us for mugs?
Mark Byrne

Feb 23, 2018

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Commentary

Why solar households should learn to love demand tariffs
Demand tariffs are controversial, but if properly done they could work for everyone. We just need the network owners to do the right thing.
Mark Byrne

Feb 15, 2018

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Markets

The long and winding road to tariff reform
In first of three articles on electricity network tariff reform, we look at Tariff Structure Statements, and why you should care about them.
Mark Byrne

Feb 6, 2018

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Storage

Batteries are energy on tap – but who owns the tap?
It’s been a bit of a free-for-all up till now, but the regulatory regime seems to be developing in a way that should benefit consumers and renewables in the long run.
Mark Byrne

Oct 9, 2017

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Utilities

How do you solve a problem like the NEO?
While the Finkel Review recognises Australia’s “energy trilemma” – security, affordability and sustainability – we have a market that recognises only the first two of these objectives.
Mark Byrne

Mar 7, 2017

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Storage

Battery storage rules should favour consumers, not networks
Batteries will supercharge the energy revolution, smoothing renewables and offering prosumers autonomy. Right now, though, the regulatory space is a bit of a Wild West.
Mark Byrne

Oct 14, 2016

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Storage

Energy market rule-maker says no to real reform – again
Decision by AEMC will push more local generators and prosumers to reduce their use of the grid, to look at private wires and microgrids, and potentially to disconnect.
Mark Byrne

Sep 22, 2016

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A call to value local energy in Australia’s future grid
The Australian Energy Market Commission has released a consultation paper on possibly the most radical proposal for energy market reform it has received.
Mark Byrne

Dec 11, 2015

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Ausgrid’s mea culpa
One Australian electricity network has finally admitted it had its snout in the trough. But will this change anything in its approach to future investment?
Mark Byrne

Dec 4, 2015

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Consumer sting in the tail of TransGrid sale
The “bonanza” obtained for the sale of electricity transmission network TransGrid will come back to haunt NSW consumers for decades to come.
Mark Byrne

Nov 26, 2015

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Electricity market reform: All choice and no obligations
The AEMC’s Power of Choice review recommends the most wide-ranging suite of reforms to the electricity industry in a decade. It was worth the wait.
Mark Byrne

Sep 7, 2012

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