The Clean Energy Council (CEC) welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) Consultation Paper, NSW Emergency Backstop Mechanism and Consumer Energy Resources Installer Portal.
We support the NSW Government’s Consumer Energy Strategy that sets out how the NSW Government will support households and small businesses across the state access the benefits of consumer energy resources (CER), like rooftop solar and household batteries, as well as energy efficient appliances. The CEC was highly engaged in consultation surrounding the Consumer Energy Strategy and welcomes the key actions around standards, compliance and minimum system demand, including the Emergency Backstop Mechanism (Action 43) and CER Installer Portal (Action 37 and 44).
The CEC highlights key recommendations for the NSW Government to consider in this consultation:
- Implement a change management program for the Emergency Backstop Mechanism implementation, utilise a diverse stakeholder working group to harmonise communication and messaging.
- Harmonise the Emergency Backstop Mechanism through collaboration of NSW DNSPs and OEMs to co-design the common set of requirements. As OEMs are currently familiar with the development and implementation work from these servers, this will reduce the need for additional accreditation and test obligations when implementing the NSW backstop mechanism.
- Implement a staged approach to the rollout of the Emergency Backstop Mechanism and Installer Portal.
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