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Did big batteries break the fossil fuel cartel on the grid, or did they just join it?
High priced events on the wholesale electricity market are normally the result of bidding by fossil fuel generators and hydro plants. Now a new actor has emerged, battery storage.
Giles Parkinson
Oct 17, 2023
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Electrification
Network muscles in on smart meters as regulator grants “trial waiver”
NSW distribution network company to roll out 5,600 smart meters to customers after being granted a “trial waiver” from the Australian Energy Regulator.
Sophie Vorrath
Oct 11, 2023
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Coal
Cost of keeping coal alive “considerable,” says AER, as market factors in emissions
“Considerable maintenance expenditure” will be needed to keep old coal plants running, the regulator says, as it contemplates what price to put on emissions.
Sophie Vorrath
Oct 5, 2023
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Smart Energy
We have wasted years trying to set standards for distributed energy resources
Australia has a long history of attempts to develop technical standards for smart distributed energy resources. We have no more time to lose.
Gabrielle Kuiper
Oct 4, 2023
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Gas
How South Australia’s biggest gas plant sat idle during summer blackouts
Federal Court finds Pelican Point gas plant breached energy market rules during controversial South Australia blackouts – at the time pinned on renewables.
Sophie Vorrath
Sep 21, 2023
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ACCC questions Brookfield over AusNet control, insight into rival renewable projects
Regulator concerned that Brookfield has access to information on connection proposals from AusNet, that could be used to “delay or frustrate connection processes” for its rivals.
Giles Parkinson
Sep 15, 2023
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Tesla gets ready to take on Australia energy utilities in landmark move for the grid
Tesla has applied for new licences with market operator and regulator in a landmark move for the grid, and for efforts to “orchestrate” consumer energy resources as coal plants close.
Giles Parkinson
Sep 13, 2023
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Transmission
Regulator takes extra time to weigh VNI West dispute as tractor protest heads to town
Australian Energy Regulator says it needs more time to decide on a dispute to the proposed design of the huge grid upgrade from the organisers behind a tractor protest.
Sophie Vorrath
Aug 9, 2023
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Coal
Energy oligopoly turns screws on customers after Liddell exit and renewable pause
Mainstream media reckons electricity prices went up last quarter because the cost of generation rose. Bollocks. The energy oligopoly simply exercised its market power.
Giles Parkinson
Jul 20, 2023
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Australia’s “biggest and most complex” standby battery system won’t be cheap
Costs revealed for the network component of the Waratah Super Battery, and one of the world’s biggest and most complex standby battery systems.
Giles Parkinson
Jul 11, 2023
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