In November 2024 the Federal Government commissioned a leading energy economist, Tim Nelson, to lead a major review into the future of the NEM.
We’ll refer to this as ‘the Nelson Review’.
Following my presentation at NEMdev 2025 (on 8th Oct 2025), here are some suggestions that the Nelson Review panel might consider - with respect to forecasting.
In the final part of our four-part CIS series, we zoom out to examine what government-backed Contract-for-Difference schemes are really achieving — drawing on policy lessons from the Nelson Review.
For short term reasons (related to the Nelson Review and the NEMDev conference) and longer-term reasons, we thought it was useful to post this as a stand-alone article now.
Continuing to walk through the draft Report of the Nelson Review, we see that the authors 'identified that most historic policy interventions have been incomplete' (i.e. speak to the Schism).
In part because I'm speaking at the NEMDev conference (Wed 8th Oct 2025 in Brisbane) we're taking a pass through the draft Report of the Nelson Review. Some (more realistic than earlier Reviews) statements...
Here's three high-level questions we've been trying to keep in mind, in our reading of the draft Report of the Nelson Review panel - for some belated (informal) submissions here on WattClarity.
I thought it would be useful to pull together this (incomplete) tabulated list of major reviews in the history of the NEM.
Yesterday (Wed 6th Aug 2025) we saw the draft report from the ‘Nelson Review’ Panel released ... followed by a presentation by the panel members facilitated by The Energy. The recording of this webinar...
In yesterday’s wrap of the past 5 weeks, I’d noted that Tim Nelson (when speaking at #ACES2025 last Tuesday) said that the Panel had not quite finished the draft report, but it was ‘imminent’....
Given the instructions were ‘Feel free to share it more widely with your colleagues and networks’, here's the slide deck from the Nelson Review presentations through May 2025.
As noted in yesterday evening’s article (about one big ‘wrinkle’), I was off to the Brisbane session of the Nelson Review today. Here's two slides that jumped out.
From Monday 5th May to Friday 9th May 2025 was like an unofficial Energy Week in Melbourne for me, out-and-about at a few events. Here's my record of some of what happened...
All public submissions from the initial consultation stage of the Nelson Review are now available on the DCCEEW website.
The recently announced 'Nelson Review' has opened the initial consultation process from today. Submissions will be open until the 14th of February 2025.
Belatedly referencing directly to the Terms of Reference of the Nelson Review.
Chris Bowen this morning announced a new four-person independent panel, who will be given roughly 12 months to review and provide reform recommendations on "wholesale market settings".