This year’s review found that while competition in the retail energy market continues to evolve, it is currently not delivering the expected benefits to consumers.

This edition of the National Energy and Emissions Audit shows that the National Electricity Market (NEM) is transitioning to renewable energy despite political and policy uncertainty.

Integration of resources, monetizing existing and planned assets, and energy trading improves the financial viability of microgrids and could make such systems more attainable and more resilient for a greater number of customers and communities.

This analysis by the Australia Institute shows the Liddell power station broke down four times this year. These breakdowns were on high-demand summer days, when reliability is most important for electricity supply.

Plug and Play 2: Enabling distributed generation through effective grid connection standards is the second report for this project. It follows a consultation paper released in February 2017, titled Plug and Play: Facilitating grid connection of low emissions technologies.