Insights

There are now more GWs of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) in the connections pipeline than any other technology type. This indicates Australian developers and asset operators are getting serious about leveraging renewable energy on the grid.

Few aspects of Australia's large-scale energy transition are as challenging and contentious as access policy.

As we look ahead to 2030 and 2050 there is increasingly little daylight in the argument that our electricity supply future will be dominated by wind, solar and various storage technologies plus material contributions from rooftop solar on the demand-side.

As Australia, alongside the global community, accelerates its energy transition, all stakeholders must take an active role. This includes developers, network operators, regulators, and market bodies.

The beginning of the decade saw State Governments commence passing legislation to start divorcing the national electricity rules (NER), or in other words, allow States to plan and approve transmission development in a manner that bypasses the NER.

As the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector is only expected to continue growing to support electricity networks, the same can be said for the expenditure allocated to ICT programs by electricity networks.