AEMC
Sophie is editor of One Step Off The Grid and deputy editor of its sister site, Renew Economy. Sophie has been writing about clean energy for more than a decade.
Governments Markets News & Commentary Renewables
AEMC flags plan to lower costs, improve efficiency of demand response
Energy consumer advocates note "welcome changes" in draft determination proposing “enhancements” to emergency demand response mechanism.
AGL has given 7 years' notice of its plans to shutter Liddell – but a new rule finalised by the AEMC means Australia's ageing coal plants must notify AEMO...
Energy rule-maker says market gaming "not an issue", but says Tesla and other batteries will be able to use re-bidding practice to lower prices, rather than inflate them, and...
Australian Energy Market Commission makes final rule for AEMO to establish register of distributed energy resources in the NEM, including small-scale battery storage systems and rooftop solar.
Australian Federal Government Governments News & Commentary Solar Storage
“This is huge” – rule changes to boost solar PV and batteries
AEMC rule changes would give consumers more control over the energy market, and reduce the ability of generators to exploit their market power. This could be a huge win.
News & Commentary Solar Storage
Regulator pushes for household battery storage register to remove “blind spot”
Bational register of Australia’s home battery installations would cost around $10m, but would remove potential huge "blind spot" and could improve power system security.
Demand tariffs are controversial, but if properly done they could work for everyone. We just need the network owners to do the right thing.
The problem in Australia's energy market is that – uniquely in the world – we have separate rule making and operating statutory bodies. Only one of them is based...
See no problems, hear no problems, do very little. We read the AEMC's Reliability review in the hope of finding some interesting ideas. We didn't.
Governments Markets News & Commentary
AEMC admits, reluctantly, that renewables will push prices down
AEMC admits rises in consumer bills this year should be reversed in the next couple of years. ... thanks to solar and wind. But it still seeks to paint...
