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'Monopoly' power companies win backing to slug all consumers for EV chargers (opens the original)
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The Australian Energy Market Commission has given preliminary approval to a plan to allow poles-and-wires companies to install EV chargers. It follows a proposal by the federal government, which wants to fast-track the rollout of charging points partly by recovering the costs from all consumers. Consultation on the proposal will be carried out over the next six weeks, with a final determination due by the end of the year. Poles-and-wires companies will be able to charge all households for the co
Regulator hits utility with big fine for 'over-priced' battery power (opens the original)
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Western Australia's state-owned electricity utility has been slapped with a seven-figure fine after a regulator found a ‘software error’ had caused a spike in wholesale power prices. Amid the rising power of batteries in WA's wholesale electricity market, the Economic Regulation Authority said it had fined Synergy $1.2 million in relation to its failure to manage the technology. The regulator has released the details of an investigation which found Synergy had pushed up prices in the market by i
Energy watchdog slaps down billion-dollar bailout for transmission line (opens the original)
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Australia's biggest transmission company has been slapped down by the regulator over attempts to pass on a billion-dollar bill to consumers for a bungled high-voltage power line. The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) this morning rejected Transgrid's bid to recover a huge cost blowout on its part of Project Energy Connect, a $3.6 billion transmission line linking South Australia with New South Wales. In a "preliminary position" published today, the watchdog said it was not satisfied with Transgr
Australia's green energy targets in 'jeopardy' as wind woes worsen (opens the original)
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When Chris Bowen got up on stage at the International Convention Centre in Sydney in mid-2023, he was determined to make a point. Meeting his government's target for Australia to get 82 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030, he said, would be a gargantuan effort. Rooftop solar installations would need to double. Storage capacity would have to be added on a vast scale. Crucially, the climate change and energy minister said Australia would need to build wind turbines. "We need
Batteries send power prices up in midnight charging mystery (opens the original)
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In the wee hours of a cold night last month, as most West Australians slept in their beds, a strange thing happened in the state's biggest and most important electricity system. About 1am, prices on the spot market started to soar. They had been hovering at an elevated level of roughly $120 per megawatt-hour (MWh) but suddenly began to climb to extreme highs of more than $350/MWh. Driving that jump in prices was no catastrophic loss of a high-voltage power line or a major coal-fired plant. It wa
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