This report provides an overview of the demand response provided by EnergyAustralia across New South Wales and Victoria for the ARENA Demand Response Trial. The knowledge shared is for the period between May 2019 to June 2019.
Report extract
The Energy sector is undergoing unprecedented change with a wave of disruption that will re-invent the industry. Significant investment is required across the supply chain to deliver a reliable, secure, affordable and sustainable energy network.
Distributed energy resources (DER) like solar, energy storage, smart homes and electric vehicles will have a material impact on the investment trajectory for the energy sector. Given the strong focus on energy costs in Australia, decentralised, behind the meter activity, including self-generation and load control, is seen as a potential way to reduce system wide costs for all market participants.
The Australian market has some of the highest uptakes of DER globally, and a key challenge for the Australian energy sector is to integrate the rapidly growing share of behind the meter DER and large scale renewable energy sources across the National Electricity Market (NEM), while preserving or improving the reliability, security, affordability and sustainability of energy.
EnergyAustralia’s Demand Response (DR) project seeks to deliver DR capability as agreed under the ARENA Advancing Renewables Programme – Demand Response, and is underpinned by EnergyAustralia’s Purpose, ‘to lead and accelerate the clean energy transformation for all’.