New demand-response energy rules sound good, but the devil is in the (hugely complicated) details
- Written by Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
Demand response sounds good, but is punishingly difficult to execute.Matthew Henry/Unsplash, CC BY-SA
Last week the body that governs Australia’s energy market released a draft proposal to introduce a demand response mechanism to the wholesale electricity market.
It argues the proposal will unearth some electricity users’ “latent...