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Excess network profits about to be baked into the National Electricity Law
Proposed changes to National Electricity Law would remove the regulatory benchmark for assessing network returns. If this happens, excess returns may be locked in until at least 2023.
Simon Orme

Nov 2, 2018

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Utilities

Ausgrid looks to community batteries, getting “closer” to consumers
Networks have gone from raising the drawbridge to lowering it, inviting new technologies and ideas on to their platform. Soon they’ll be competing for the consumer.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 10, 2018

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CoAG takes major step forward on renewables, despite NEG standoff
Amid stand-off over the NEG, state and federal ministers took a major step forward on renewables integration by deciding to take action on AEMO’s 20-year blueprint, and got enthusiastic about Alan Finkel’s big ideas for renewable hydrogen.
Giles Parkinson

Aug 13, 2018

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Featured

Lousy power quality? Blame the grid, not rooftop PV
High voltage on local networks is frying appliances, and costing consumers billions of dollars. The media and the networks have sought to blame the issue on rooftop PV, but a new study suggests the networks are to blame.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 27, 2018

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Biggest winners, and biggest losers, of network monopoly game
For a Queensland household electricity bill with network charges of $1,000, the Queensland government profits from the networks amounts to $470.
Hugh Grant

Apr 26, 2018

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Markets

Consumer bills to jump as networks score court victory over regulator
Australian Energy Regulator loses costly Federal Court battle to control how much NSW network operators can charge for power.
Sophie Vorrath & Giles Parkinson

May 24, 2017

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Utilities

Is it ok for the regulator to ignore electricity networks’ extraordinary profits?
Australia’s monopoly electricity networks are the most profitable businesses in Australia. And the consumer pays, and pays.
Hugh Grant

Dec 6, 2016

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Featured

Network lobby proposes special tariff to keep households on grid
Networks lobby suggests small discount to network charges could keep consumers on grid – if they don’t mind being cut off in critical peaks. But it also proposes rule changes that signal shift from blanket “rural electrification”, even if its technology estimates are still conservative.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 27, 2016

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Solar

Solar, storage and remote controlled air-con: How communities can fix the grid
For the first time, a traditional network company is leveraging non-network solutions to fix an age-old grid problem that used to mean only one thing: more poles and wires.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 30, 2016

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AER downgrades Victorian network allowance by $2.3bn
Victorian electricity networks to have revenue allowances downgraded by more than $2.3bn in 2017 – a cut that could reduce household electricity bills by up to $120 out to 2020.
Sophie Vorrath

May 26, 2016

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Networks and retailers fight for solar + storage market, and energy future
Network operators are getting excited about the possibilities of solar and storage, and see their future in providing full service plans to consumers. This terrifies gentailers, who argue network monopolies should be ring-fenced from the market. It promises to be a huge battle.
Giles Parkinson

May 19, 2016

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The mismatch in current demand charge-based network tariffs
Current cost-reflective tariffs drive a significantly lower reduction in network peaks than in customer peaks.
Rob Passey and Navid Haghdadi

Mar 17, 2016

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