We welcome the opportunity to provide feedback on AEMO’s draft report and proposed amendments to the Congestion Information Resource Guidelines (CIR guidelines), as part of its 2024 consultation on the CIR Guidelines. This submission only reflects the views of our developer and investor industry members and does not reflect the views of TNSPs.
We recommend that AEMO make available on its website as soon as possible updated transmission line diagrams of the same quality to those previously made available by AEMO to participants. AEMO should update those diagrams every 6 months given the scale and speed of the clean energy transition, so the diagrams reflect recent network augmentations and work undertaken to connect new projects to the grid.
There is a need for further information about planned transmission projects to assist with forecasting network congestion in the medium term.
We support AEMO publishing a Network Outage Statistics Report. It is the CEC’s view that TNSPs need to give at least 4 months’ notice of planned outages in the NOS for market impacts to be minimised.
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