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Also seems like a very big disincentive from offering innovative TOU FiTs.

10.01.2025 08:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Interesting! I enjoy that 9-10pm is also a magical $0 FiT time in the ToU minimums too. Like hey the market at 3:15pm is going gang busters for your solar but at 9:20pm they want none of it. And then 10:05pm back to valuable.

10.01.2025 07:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Me too!

29.12.2024 02:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
2024 Annual Review This annual review serves as a quick re-cap of what I've been up to and to keep the "make a blog post every year" streak going. It covers work I've been involved in, general trends in the Australian ...

A quick re-cap of what I and the Australian DER industry has been up to this year. 🎅

grids.dev/posts/2024-a...

24.12.2024 06:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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How We Got the Lithium-Ion Battery It took decades of research, performed around the world, before a practical lithium-ion battery was possible.

“It’s perhaps more appropriate to think of the lithium-ion battery not as a single invention, but as a slow, steady accumulation of many inventions that were needed to both make a battery practical and to unlock its full potential.”

open.substack.com/pub/construc...

01.12.2024 01:09 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Retail therapy 'Tis the season

Declan "I simultaneously signed up to six different retail offers" Kelly stress tests the retail switching systems.

Which retailer wins? Was this the cause of the AEMO market systems outage a few months back? Is Declan going straight to energy jail?

currentlyspeaking.substack.com/p/retail-the...

28.11.2024 01:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CER amd networks – ITK Research Electricity markets analysis

David Leitch dives into the future of residential energy use and distribution networks in Australia.

Well researched. Succinct. Many interesting perspectives. itkservices3.com/posts/reside...

26.11.2024 09:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here’s hoping every report starts with a small vignette linking CER integration to actual cicadas 🤞

18.11.2024 06:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Meter readers is a good idea. Whenever I hear SAPN and controlled load it takes me back to 2014 where electronic timers were way to accurate and caused high ramp rates from all the circuits switching at the same time.

Even in 2014 they mention daytime HW heating! www.aer.gov.au/system/files...

16.11.2024 05:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For existing dumb meters it takes a truck roll! As I understand it the smart meter option primarily just needs a way for the retailer to interface with the metering coordinator. The ability for the metering coordinator to control the circuit is already there.

16.11.2024 04:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The use of controlled load circuits on solar households will be an interesting one to watch. Anecdotally I’ve heard many switching their HW onto the main circuit when getting solar installed. New retail products might reverse that trend. Great trial.

16.11.2024 04:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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