January’s final report ‘Review of the Integrated System Plan’ for the Ministerial Council is noted in the Senate

As noted yesterday, I’ve been away and otherwise focused for a while – and now am progressively fitting a bit of ‘catch-up’ in between other tasks.

One of the things I noticed on social media over the past week or so (emanating out of the current Senate Committee on Energy Planning and Regulation in Australia, in which we were mentioned yesterday) was the the enhanced visibility given to the ‘Final Report of the the Integrated System Plan’, which was:

1)   completed the Energy and Climate Change Ministerial Council in January 2024;

2)   in response to terms of reference set in July 2023.

3)  with Ministers considering the review at the Energy and Climate Change Ministerial Council meeting on 1 March 2024

I’d not really noticed it, however, until mentions recently … and I wonder if that was not the case more generally:

1)  As such, I’ve added this back-dated and belated reference to it as ‘Final report ‘Review of the Integrated System Plan’ for the Ministerial Council’.

2)  Thanks to the two sources on social media I saw referencing this:

(a)  Aidan Morrison has been well down in that rabbit hole for the IPA (oops, the CIS, per Ben’s comment below), such as in this thread here from 29th November 2024.

(b)  I also saw that Geoff Eldridge had put this summary together on LinkedIn a couple days later (complete with a helpful link to the report PDF in the comments, thanks Geoff!).

Whilst I’m not aware of whether the Final Report was (or was not) publicly available anywhere prior to this time:

1)  I did not notice it; and

2)  It’s not currently listed or linked in what I would have assumed would have been the most relevant spot – this page titled ‘Review of the Integrated System Plan’ on the main energy-related government website (unless I am missing something?!):

So we’ll look forward to (time permitting) reviewing the Final Report itself, and the other follow-on documentation linked at that page.