HumeLink is the latest in the series of major transmission projects to come out of AEMO’s Integrated System Plan (ISP). It is shaping up to be a set of transmission lines linking Bannaby, Maragle and Wagga Wagga in southern NSW. Its key role is to allow the transfer of energy from Snowy 2.0 to NSW …
It’s only a few weeks since Project EnergyConnect, the South Australia-New South Wales interconnector, was finally confirmed to be going ahead. The $2,275m transmission line is the most expensive single project to be built since NEM start. But its record may not stand for long, as an even bigger project cleared its latest hurdle. Marinus …
The Grattan institute’s latest report Go For Net Zero, attempts to find a middle path between competing visions of the future electricity sector. On the one hand are certain Coalition politicians, who still believe that because Australia is largely powered by coal today, it must be best to keep powering it with coal into the …
Playing the blame game Reading the coverage of the devastation caused to Texas and its power grid by the recent polar vortex has been sobering and instructive. What’s clear is that many see these disasters as a chance to sharpen their knives and have a dig at whichever aspect of the system they don’t like: …
Published in The Australian Financial Review on January 31, 2020. On Friday the National Electricity Market made an important shift in strategic direction from which it may never return. It left the orbit of a market based system towards one which is centrally planned. Not with a bang but a whimper. The event seemed innocent …
