The Finkel Review provided direction from above but it is community groups that are spearheading the shift to renewables, writes Heather Smith.
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The National Electricity Market has served its purpose – it’s time to move on
A single, national market that supplies all of Australia’s electricty is looking dangerously outdated – and politically impossible, writes Alan Pears of RMIT University.
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Smarter grid regulations will awaken sleeping giant of demand management: ARENA
A study commissioned by ARENA has found that a move towards smarter electricity network regulation would improve reliability, reduce emissions and cut power bills for energy users.
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New power security plan confirms vital role of transmission
The Australian Energy Market Commission has released the Final Report of its System Security Market Frameworks Review in which it recommends transmission businesses be required to maintain minimum levels of inertia, or other equivalent services, to provide power system security.
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Majority want an energy system dominated by renewables
Australians overwhelmingly want the country’s energy system to be powered by renewables because they see it as the “economically smart” thing for the country's future, The Climate Institute’s Climate of the Nation 21017 report has found.
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‘We need to put our skates on’: Aurecon on the grid challenge
The role of the grid is changing and the way that change is managed will ensure whether or not the rollout of renewables will be easy, says Dr Alex Wonhas of engineering and consulting company Aurecon.
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Hope for utility-scale energy storage, but don’t hope for too much
It’s hard to plan ahead when forecasts about the clean energy transition change every day. Academic Dr Roger Dargaville talks about murkiness in the deep reservoir of research and the role he sees for large-scale energy storage.
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Finkel review progress welcome but certainty crucial for new investment: CEC
Clean Energy Council CEO Kane Thornton said new investment in power generation is the most effective way to put downward pressure on electricity bills, and ensure energy security as ageing generation continues to retire.
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Political leaders must turn Finkel blueprint into energy roadmap: CEC
The clean energy industry has welcomed the release of the final report from the Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel into Australia’s energy security and is calling on political leadership to finally end the energy crisis, the industry’s peak body said today.
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Panel: What Australia can teach New York (and vice versa)
Energy Networks Australia’s Welcome to the Grid Edge seminar in Sydney in May included a panel discussion about the possible opportunities which lie in wait for consumers as the electricity grid is transformed into a multi-purpose, peer-to-peer market that also serves generators and distributors.
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