AEMC

Storage

From baseload to flexible capacity: The market, and even the rules, are on the move
Flexible capacity, delivered through battery storage, pumped hydro and new market concepts, is going to rapidly overtake the old baseload paradigm.
David Leitch

Sep 20, 2021

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Storage

Who should pay the network costs of neighbourhood batteries?
Regulatory agencies differ on whether small batteries should pay network charges when they withdraw electricity from the grid.
Bruce Mountain and Kelly Burns

Sep 17, 2021

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Storage

Battery storage will force us to rethink network tariffs and structures
Last mile networks are much more valuable than our biggest generators. We need to rethink pricing and regulations to get the best out of distributed energy.
David Leitch

Sep 16, 2021

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Governments

Kean says states may carve own path on energy transition, flags talks with coal owners
‘Whether Canberra likes it or not, we’ve got to crack on with it’, Kean signals states could leave Morrison government behind in transition to clean energy.
Michael Mazengarb

Sep 2, 2021

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Featured

Independent advice to ESB was strongly against Taylor’s favoured “Coalkeeper” subsidy
Independent advice to ESB warned against capacity mechanism championed by Angus Taylor, and which may pay coal plants to do things they can’t do.
Giles Parkinson

Aug 26, 2021

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$Market fracture looms as states and power industry split over “Coal-keeper”$

Featured

Market fracture looms as states and power industry split over “Coal-keeper”
National Electricity Market could be deeply fractured by the split among states and industry over the design of reforms designed to bring it into 21st century.
Giles Parkinson

Aug 22, 2021

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Rooftop PV

Solar export tax: An unhelpful “solution” to a problem that’s already been solved
Distribution networks finally given responsibility for supporting household solar exports, but they shouldn’t be charging for them.
Dr. Gabrielle Kuiper

Aug 13, 2021

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Rooftop PV

Solar tax counts cost of panels, but who will pay for Snowy 2.0?
Snowy Hydro will impose a massive additional cost on NSW customers, but solar panels on household roofs, which bring prices down for all of us, are the focus of massive reform.
Bruce Mountain

Aug 13, 2021

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Governments

Sun tax to be “optional” under new solar export plan, but limits may still apply
New rules mean solar homes will need to pay to access the best feed-in-tariffs and avoid curtailment.
Michael Mazengarb

Aug 12, 2021

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Institutions

To fix unequal rooftop solar benefits, there’s a better way than taxes
Rather than a solar tax, we should keep growing the solar pie, and improve benefit sharing through technologies like community batteries.
Andrew Stock

Aug 6, 2021

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AEMC

From baseload to flexible capacity: The market, and even the rules, are on the move

Who should pay the network costs of neighbourhood batteries?

Battery storage will force us to rethink network tariffs and structures

Kean says states may carve own path on energy transition, flags talks with coal owners

Independent advice to ESB was strongly against Taylor’s favoured “Coalkeeper” subsidy

Market fracture looms as states and power industry split over “Coal-keeper”

Solar export tax: An unhelpful “solution” to a problem that’s already been solved

Solar tax counts cost of panels, but who will pay for Snowy 2.0?

Sun tax to be “optional” under new solar export plan, but limits may still apply

To fix unequal rooftop solar benefits, there’s a better way than taxes

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