National Electricity Market (NEM)

Wednesday, 05 March 2008 02:20

Since 2004 TEC has been advocating changes to the National Electricity Market (NEM) to encourage better environmental outcomes, in particular a reduction in the greenhouse gas emissions generated by fossil fueled electricity. Our work now focuses on encouraging more  "demand side management" such as energy efficiency initiatives in the NEM to complement the introduction of a carbon price and the expansion of renewable energy generation. We are aiming to prevent:

• enormous and unnecessary costs of inefficient network investment
• hidden subsidies to new, remote generators
• the lack of accurate price signals
• the expansion of a less reliable electricity system
• barriers to distributed generators and demand management providers
• a greenhouse gas emission intense electricity system that brings with it environmental damage and a disproportionate risk of future carbon liabilities

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