The 2024 Climate Change Authority Annual Progress Report made recommendations that addressed the issues of achieving renewable energy targets, maintaining system security and reliability as the share of renewables increases, connecting renewables to the grid more quickly and unlocking more generation and storage at the local level. This report provides further advice on those issues...

This explainer outlines the technological and policy levers available to government and the energy sector to give people more choice over power use when it comes to energy demand and supply. It contends that better energy policy to relieve costs to customers is within reach.

Rooftop solar has been lauded by energy market bodies, policymakers, the media and environmental groups as a great way to lower bills, help the environment and help the grid. While rooftop solar may have lowered bills for homeowners able to install it, this paper posits that it has done so by increasing bills for everyone...

Analysis of how a nuclear pathway could impact national efforts to reduce emissions shows the deployment of nuclear in Australia’s grid could add at least 2 billion tonnes to national emissions. The report finds a nuclear pathway could see Australia miss the legislated emissions reduction target for 2030.

Consumers are becoming increasingly significant suppliers of electricity through the energy transition. This report analyses distribution network performance in providing services to customers who export electricity back into the grid. It finds 27% of all network customers now use export services.