TY - Conference paper AU - Luke Marshall AU - Anna Bruce AU - Iain MacGill PY - 2017 T1 - Distributed energy resources and the Australian NEM – a good match? PB - Asia-Pacific Solar Research Conference, 29 November - 1 December 2016, Canberra, Australia DO - https://doi.org/APO-233271 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/233271 AB - This paper aims to revisit the way that distributed energy resources (DERs) interact with the present structures of the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM), and consider opportunities to improve the interface between centralized and distributed resource operation and investment. The NEM was established with the stated aim of facilitating efficient operation of and investment in electricity systems across the Eastern Australian States through more competitive, market oriented arrangements. ER -