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2020 Review of Incentives to Improve Availability of Generators

The ERA is required to review the market rules about incentives to improve the availability of generators in the Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM). This review will determine whether these market rules are operating appropriately or should be changed to better meet the WEM objectives. The market rules also require the ERA to progress any recommendations from the reviews as a rule change proposal.

ERA Papers

The ERA published a draft report on 2 October 2020 to seek feedback from market participants and interested parties on this review. The consultation period closed on Friday, 13 November 2020. The ERA published a Final Report on 29 December 2020.

Date Documents File type
29-Dec-20 Final Report
Adobe PDF 871 kB

02-Oct-20 Draft Report
Adobe PDF 676 kB

02-Oct-20 GHD Advisory Report - Generator Availability Analysis
Adobe PDF 2 MB

24-Apr-20 Issues Paper
Adobe PDF 378 kB

Public submissions

Three submissions were received in response to the issues paper. These submissions are available in the table below.

Date Documents File type
12-Jun-20 Alinta Energy
Adobe PDF 764 kB

12-Jun-20 Synergy
Adobe PDF 3 MB

05-Jun-20 Perth Energy
Adobe PDF 1 MB

 

Two submissions were received in response to the draft report. These submissions are available in the table below.

Date  Documents File type
17-Nov-20 Alinta Energy
Adobe PDF 168 kB
17-Nov-20
Synergy
Adobe PDF 432 kB
Page last updated: 29 Dec 2020