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Bruce Mountain
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Technical report
Inertia and system strength in the National Energy Market
This report has been prepared for the Australia Institute to provide advice to the Energy Security Board’s Post-2025 redesign of the National Electricity Market (NEM).
Report
Reality check: why CSS has no role in Australia's energy system
This report responds to a request from the Australian Conservation Foundation to undertake a desk-top review of the cost of carbon capture and storage (CCS) applied to electricity generation in Australia. The analysis suggests carbon capture and storage is likely to cost at least six times as much as wind generation plus storage, with comparable...
Article
New demand-response energy rules sound good, but the devil is in the (hugely complicated) details
Proposed rules for managing energy demand could potentially lower prices and reduce blackout risk, but there are reasons to be skeptical.
Working paper
The exercise of market power in Australia’s National Electricity Market following the closure of the Hazelwood power station
This paper looks at prices in the National Electricity Market before and after the closure of this Victorian power station in April 2017.
Report
Does renewable electricity generation reduce electricity prices?
This report compares the other countries' electricity prices to the prices paid by households in Australia’s contestable retail markets. And it develops an econometric analysis of the South Australian data to identify how South Australia’s prices have been affected by renewables and coal generation closure.