What is the point of the RRO?
Ben Skinner asks some philosophical questions about the Retail Reliability Obligation (RRO), and provides some commentary about its past and future.
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What does ‘Rethinking Capitalism’ mean, for the National Electricity Market?
We thought it would be worth linking to Jim Chalmers’ article this week in The Monthly, as it seems these ideas will have (more) implications for the National Electricity Market.
South Australia’s Energy Minister triggers the Retailer Reliability Obligation (RRO) for SA in Q1 2026
A release from the AER states that SA’s Minister for Energy and Mining has triggered the RRO (and hence MLO) in South Australia for Q1 2026.
Media buzz about compensation for Gladstone Power Station under the coal price cap
Two media articles (in the Guardian and the Australian) prompt a quick article, utilising an in-development copy of the up-coming GSD2022.
Price Caps to be implemented on Gas and Coal (perhaps?) … with impacts to be felt in the NEM
Striving to catch up on a couple weeks away, today I’ve tried to piece together the current state of deliberations about the potential (and rushed) implementation of caps on domestic gas and coal prices feeding into the NEM.
Back to the future
Greg Thorpe of Oakley Greenwood discusses some of the latest developments in the electricity sector which could be described as ‘back to the future’.. and provides a forecast of what might follow.
What (I believe) is the real cause of our energy crisis – and what should we do?
Tristan Edis of Green Energy Markets explains his thoughts on what has caused the evolving energy crisis and what state and federal governments could do in response.