by Fabian Le Gay Brereton | May 1, 2021 | Decentralisation, Electricity Markets, NEM
This week Australia’s Energy Security Board released its Post-2025 Market Design Options Paper. The paper proposes pathways and reform options to meet four key areas of need for Australia’s future energy system: Resource adequacy through the transition...
by Pete Tickler | Dec 9, 2020 | Battery Storage, Decentralisation, NEM, Networks, WEM
There’s a healthy debate underway in the energy sector around where battery energy storage assets should be located within electricity systems, in order to create the greatest possible value, both for their owners and for society more broadly. As a general rule, the...
by Dr James Barnard | Nov 8, 2020 | Battery Storage, Electricity Markets, NEM
Going toe-to-toe with the US election for media attention, this week saw the announcement of another huge battery storage project for Australia. Imaginatively dubbed the Victorian ‘Big Battery’, the project, which is to be located near Geelong in Victoria...
by Pete Tickler | Oct 31, 2020 | Decentralisation, Electric Vehicles, NEM
The transition to decarbonised and decentralised energy systems is occurring in lockstep with the growth in e-mobility. Whether it’s countries ratcheting up emissions standards, outright bans on new sales of internal combustion engine vehicles or the auto...
by Pete Tickler | Oct 26, 2020 | Decentralisation, Electricity Markets, NEM, Solar PV
https://gridcognition.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/NEM-CO2-emissions-1.mp4 For many organisations (like Google with their commitment to 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy) optimising the design and operation of their DER assets isn’t just about dollars and cents; the...
by Pete Tickler | Oct 14, 2020 | Battery Storage, Decentralisation, NEM, Networks, WEM
The TL;DR We simulated the same behind-the-meter commercial solar and battery project across the 14 distribution networks that make up the WEM and NEM. We found that there could be up to a 150% difference in the network tariff savings based on the very same...
