Submission to AEMO on integrating price-responsive resources into the NEM

AEMO proposes to take a staged and more considered approach to the delivery of the IPRR.  The CEC supports AEMO’s proposal to adopt a staged delivery approach for IPRR as a pragmatic response to delivery complexity, competing reform priorities and system constraints. A staged approach can:

• reduce implementation risk and cost

• enable iterative learning

• improve long term design outcomes

However, the success of this approach will depend critically on ensuring that early stage participation is commercially viable, operationally feasible and broadly representative of existing CER portfolios.