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 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...
by Fabian Le Gay Brereton | Sep 17, 2020 | Electricity Markets, WEM
Today the WA Wholesale Electricity Market hit the price floor of -$1000/MWh for the first time on a weekday. The long-term trend is clear, driven by the increasing decentralisation of energy.
by Pete Tickler | Sep 3, 2020 | Solar PV, WEM
Yesterday, WA’s government announced a change to the regulated feed-in-tariff that’s offered to residential owners of solar PV. From November 2020, rather than receiving a flat 7c/kWh for excess solar exported to the grid, the new scheme will incorporate a...
