Page 27 - Integrated System Plan News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

10 May 2021 The Australian Energy Market Operator says the rate of wind and solar additions on the country’s main grid, and the huge and growing pipeline, means it is “well ahead” of its most optimistic renewable transition scenario of 90 per cent renewable energy penetration by 2040. AEMO chief systems design officer Dr Alex Wonhas said in a statement on Monday that a further 300 generation and storage projects, totalling 55,000MW, were currently proposed across the NEM, nearly double its current total installed capacity. “Based on the pipeline of registered and commissioned renewabl...

3 May 2021 The Morrison government has confirmed it clashed with a key energy market body over gas price assumptions, suggesting that the government applied pressure in an attempt to advocate for a bigger role for gas in the energy system. Speaking to a senate estimates hearing on Monday, officials said that there had been a disagreement between the Morrison government and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) over gas price assumptions to be used in the Integrated System Plan, with the government suggesting AEMO’s assumed gas prices were too high. The Morrison government has advocat...

Infographics Media release Energy market reform shortlist released The Energy Security Board (ESB) today released a shortlist of options for the redesign...

30 April 2021 One of the defining characteristics of Australia’s energy and climate debate – and RenewEconomy readers will be deeply familiar with this – is that it is inherently circular. A closed loop repeating pattern of a small and predictable set of policy tricks are enacted by a conservative government, the opposition party does not oppose them. Industries heavily vested in fossil fuels twist the knobs and turn the levers in the background to maximise opportunity and eradicate risk, and the cycle repeats. Occasionally, something weird happens. Tony Abbott was weird. The West-Austr...

30 April 2021 The Energy Security Board (ESB) has unveiled its long awaited package of market reform proposals as the industry scrambles to seize the opportunities from the rapidly accelerating shift to renewables, and the anticipated early exit from coal. The ESB options paper focuses on four different parts of the market: keeping the lights on with enough energy, providing essential grid services, the growth of distributed energy – now seen as a valuable asset rather than a liability – and grid congestion and network planning. But the most controversial aspect of its proposals will undo...