This paper explores how the energy transition, emerging energy technologies, products, and services, and changing societal expectations are challenging the market structures and competitive market model of regulation for the NSW electricity sector operating within the National Electricity Market. The rise of modern energy regulatory principles most likely to affect NSW is examined to understand...

This report provides a 10-year outlook of investment requirements to maintain reliability for Australia’s National Electricity Market. It highlights that expected investments in new generation, storage and transmission must be delivered on time and in full to maintain a reliable supply of electricity to homes and businesses.

AEMO’s Integrated System Plan (ISP) is a roadmap for the transition of the National Electricity Market (NEM) power system, with a clear plan for essential infrastructure that will meet future energy needs. The 2024 ISP confirms that renewable energy, connected by transmission and distribution, firmed with storage and backed up by gas-powered generation, is the...

Alternative Long Duration Energy Storage (ALDES) technologies are rapidly emerging as effective and complementary to reinforcing these established types of energy storage. This report provides an introduction to ALDES, exploring the key ALDES technology families and the context in which they will operate. It also explores the specific roles these technologies will play in delivering...

New information has become available since AEMO released the 2023 Electricity Statement of Opportunities (ESOO) in August 2023 that warrants reassessment of the supply and demand outlook in the National Electricity Market (NEM). This update to the 2023 ESOO reinforces that urgent investments in capacity in the NEM are needed to manage reliability risks.