AEMO Archives - Page 17 of 24 - Renew Economy

For $6 extra, AEMO keeps lights on and defies renewable skeptics
AEMO says reserve mechanism that ensured lights stayed on last summer cost just $6 per customer, and praises role of newly deployed technologies such as batteries and demand response.
Giles Parkinson

May 23, 2018

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Storage

Inside the Tesla big battery: How it made money and cut prices
AEMO reports detail how Tesla big battery helped keep the lights on last summer, smashed prices in specialised markets, and made money for itself from price arbitrage.
Sophie Vorrath & Giles Parkinson

May 23, 2018

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Commentary

Better to be long renewables than be short
Coalition’s emissions target makes Australia’s grid barely cleaner than a coal generator. Happily, the states will clean up, but Snowy Hydro needs to lift its game.
David Leitch

May 1, 2018

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Renewables

Chris Uhlmann’s windy “truthiness” adds to policy fog
Chris Uhlmann’s tweet is just the latest in a long series of biased reporting on South Australia’s energy transition.
Simon Holmes à Court

Apr 18, 2018

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Markets

NEG high level design document at a glance
Highlights from the high level NEG document distributed to COAG energy ministers ahead of next Friday’s meeting.
Giles Parkinson & Sophie Vorrath

Apr 13, 2018

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Other Good Stuff

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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Storage

Zibelman: Old energy market rules make no sense
AEMO boss Audrey Zibelman says technologies are changing at “breath-taking” speed, economy, but Australia’s energy transition could be held back because its energy market rules are rooted in the past.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 26, 2018

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Markets

Journey to zero emissions electricity: BAU could deliver more than NEG
First of three-part series examining the evolution of Australia’s electricity system to 2050, and the role of policy-makers along the way.
Gordon Weiss

Mar 16, 2018

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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.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 7, 2018

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Commentary

Will the NEG make the energy transition easier or harder?
The ESB needs to go back to the drawing board and have another go at its National Energy Guarantee. They doesn’t understand what a bad solution they have proposed.
David Leitch

Feb 22, 2018

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Markets

If any institution needs to go, it should be AEMC, not AEMO
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 in reality.
Steve Blume

Feb 14, 2018

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Policy & Planning

Energy divide: Frontier attacks AEMO, wants it abolished
Schism among Australia’s energy elite deepens as Frontier’s Danny Price attacks AEMO, saying it is a “danger” to investors and should be abolished.
Giles Parkinson

Feb 13, 2018

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