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21 April 2021 Australia’s largest electricity companies have backed the Australian Energy Market Operator’s decision to abandon plans to model a future scenario based on the Morrison governments ‘gas led recovery’ as part of the next Integrated System Plan, saying the scenario was not realistic. AEMO is currently consulting on proposed assumptions and modelling approaches ahead of the next iteration of its Integrated System Plan, which serves as an influential guide for the next stage of development needed for Australia’s main electricity grid. AEMO had initially floated the idea of...

21 April 2021 Australia’s largest electricity companies have backed the Australian Energy Market Operator’s decision to abandon plans to model the Morrison governments ‘gas led recovery’ as part of the next Integrated System Plan, saying the scenario was not realistic. AEMO is currently consulting on proposed assumptions and modelling approaches ahead of the next iteration of its Integrated System Plan, which serves as an influential guide for the next stage of development needed for Australia’s main electricity grid. AEMO had initially floated the idea of modelling a future grid sc...

13 April 2021 New reports have emerged of major rift between federal energy minister Angus Taylor and the body tasked with developing a redesign of Australia’s National Electricity Market, with allegations that Energy Security Board chair Kerry Schott was pressured to resign over her refusal to fall in line with the Morrison government’s obsession with gas. In a report on Monday night, ABC TV’s Four Corners program alleged that Taylor’s head of department called Schott and “urged her to resign” after she refused to support the minister’s repeated assertion that NSW coal plant cl...

8 April 2021 Major new transmission network projects are now in doubt after the Australian Energy Market Commission formally rejected a request from network companies to allow for increased early revenues from key network upgrades. The decision could potentially kill off plans to build major new network links identified in the Australian Energy Market Operator’s Integrated System Plan, considered crucial for further investment in wind and solar projects and the transition to a renewables-dominated grid. Network companies had been hoping to front-end revenues to aid in securing finance for t...

7 April 2021 The outfit behind one of the biggest renewable energy and storage projects currently proposed for the National Electricity Market has unveiled plans to build a major transmission line, linking the New South Wales coal power centre of Liddell to the future solar and wind energy hub of Uralla through the Walcha Plateau. The so-called WalchaLink is being proposed by Walcha Energy, a joint venture between Mirus Energy and Energy Estate, that aims to develop roughly 3,400MW of wind generation capacity, up to 700MW of solar, and multiple 500MW/3000MWh pumped hydro energy storage facili...