This report will be of interest to energy practitioners and researchers conducting feasibility studies pertaining to microgrids and other emerging energy solutions, particularly those who are wishing to engage the community with more innovative ways of encouraging connection, buy in and co-design.

Australian electricity consumers who choose to go 'off-grid' will find it easier, safer and more reliable, under reforms proposed in this final report by the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC).

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.

In this report we compare the cost of power outages with the associated economic value of electric reliability. We explain the benefits of affordable microgrid services using natural gas as fuel, and we detail how microgrids can leverage wholesale power markets during normal operations, enhancing their value proposition and strengthening the broader electric grid. We...

The growing adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs) across Australia may represent the start of a transition of Australia's power system from a centraliased generation model towards an interconnected set of embedded microgrid systems. In these systems, local trading of coincident generation and consumption is being explored, with the idea that this would encourage consumer...