Yesterday we published an article on WattClarity by Stefan Jarnason of Solar Analytics, examining the need for real time DER data and explaining aspects of the recently released DER Visibility and Monitoring Best Practice Guide. Several stakeholders within the DER…
The AEMO’s Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Register is now live. After a short implementation delay from the original Dec 1st launch date that was previously announced, the DER register went live on the 1st of March 2020, with requirements for…
The AEMO’s Distributed Energy Register (DER) goes live in just over two weeks – we will watch what happens with keen interest.
Today (Thu 13th September 2018) the AEMC made a final rule requiring the AEMO to establish a register of distributed energy resources in the NEM. The register is to include small-scale battery storage systems and rooftop solar. The new register…
Back in August 2017, the COAG Energy Council agreed to initiate a national register for DER (Distributed Energy Resources), administered by the AEMO. The Energy Council asked the AEMC to commence the rule change process to establish this. Given our…
A quick post today (given everything else going on in the NEM this week) to note that the Clean Energy Regulator (CER) as posted an article on their website today “Providing battery information for small generation units” on Tuesday 5th June….
The following post is based on my presentation at the Smart Energy Expo and Conference – Sydney April 11th 2018. The term “Behind the Meter” (BTM) reflects how the power system used to work and should be retired. The phrase…
On Thursday 3rd August 2017, the COAG Energy Council published this “Energy Market Transformation Bulletin No 05 – Work Program Update”. In particular, it contained this notice: Battery Storage Consistent with the Finkel recommendation for improved information on distributed energy…
The Energy Storage Council held their “Queensland Energy Storage Summit” on 22nd March 2017. We were invited to give a brief overview of the work we’d completed, to date, on the development of the national Energy Storage Register (ESR). With…
In the CER monthly summary of small-scale renewable energy installations across Australia, Cracking the small-scale code – December 2016, the regulator notes that: “There were 64 PV systems that had a concurrent battery storage installation in December, bringing the total…
Through 2016 we have been working with the Australian Energy Storage Council in the development of a national Energy Storage Register (the reasoning for which is provided here). This project is ongoing. In the process of developing this service for…
Coincident with the All Energy 2016 conference, we were pleased to work with the Energy Storage Council in the launch of the Battery Finder service – as a milestone in the development of the broader Energy Storage Register. The Battery…