ESB Archives - Renew Economy

Policy & Planning

Network companies called out for “lack of accountability” on rooftop solar integration, in final report from ESB
Energy Security Board final report calls for coordinated leadership and action – particularly from DNSPs – on the integration of consumer energy resources.
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 9, 2024

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Investor group slams ESB as too slow on transmission access reform
Clean Energy Investor Group says Energy Security Board’s slow progress on electricity network transmission access reform is choking investment in renewables.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 7, 2022

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Why a capacity mechanism will require revived Renewable Energy Target
Could a revival of the federal Renewable Energy Target be the ideal complement to a capacity mechanism to accelerate the transition to clean energy?
Michael Mazengarb

Jul 19, 2022

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Clean energy sector issues plea to ministers to reject “disruptive” market reforms
Clean energy investors call on energy ministers to reject controversial energy market reforms, including a plan to subsidise coal generators.
Michael Mazengarb

Sep 21, 2021

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Other Good Stuff

Post-it note workshops are no way to deliver a market for solar, storage and EVs
The heads of AEMO and AEMC must plan for a 100% renewable future where distributed energy resources are given equal priority to large-scale resources.
Dr. Gabrielle Kuiper

Sep 20, 2021

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Transcript: Energy Insiders interview with ESB chair Kerry Schott
Kerry Schott joins Energy Insiders to discuss the proposed options for the energy market reform, and why coal generators are not viable, and may need support.
Staff Reporter

Apr 30, 2021

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Coal

The post 2025 energy market must plan for a grid without coal
The Energy Security Board is devising ways to keep the grid operating along the rocky road of the renewables transition. But is it looking far enough ahead?
Tim Finnigan

Mar 22, 2021

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Why the Energy Security Board is exactly what the NEM needs
The ESB has done a job the AEMC wasn’t doing, and additionally it has championed the ISP in a necessary way.
David Leitch

Aug 24, 2020

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Finally, Australia’s energy network planning will include climate policies
AEMO to be granted ability to incorporate state and federal climate change targets in network system planning.
Michael Mazengarb

Apr 2, 2020

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Markets

Schott says “two-sided” market turning energy sector on its head
ESB chair Kerry Schott says two-sided market – driven by demand response and distributed solar and storage – will require complete reform of NEM.
Michael Mazengarb

Nov 26, 2019

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Markets

Know your NEM: Angus Taylor should go to naughty corner over terrible policy
The federal Coalition is systematically undermining the basis of the private ownership of the electricity market in Australia. Legal rights are being cut back at every turn.
David Leitch

Dec 4, 2018

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Markets

Know your NEM: The ESB is becoming a laughing stock
Management at a speculative gold mining company would blush at some of the outrageous claims made in the modelling the ESB “leans heavily on” to justify the NEG.
David Leitch

Aug 7, 2018

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