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High electricity and gas prices are the tip of the iceberg for the Albanese Labor government, which is facing a full-blown energy problem in its first few weeks in office. ....
The 2022 awards see work with climate change being acknowledged and a wife and husband team making the list. COMPANION (AC) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA Dr Alan Simon FINKEL AO, South Yarra VIC 3141 For eminent service to science, to national energy innovation and research infrastructure capability, to climate change and COVID-19… ....
29 April 2021 The Australian Energy Market Commission has announced major changes to the way “system strength” is managed on Australia’s main grid, effectively ending its controversial “do no harm” legislation from 2017 and putting the responsibility on network owners to manage the issue. System strength is an essential grid service that is key to maintaining voltage control in the face of a disturbance, and concerns about the state of system strength has caused significant delays to the commissioning of many big wind and solar farms, and caused many to have their output reduced to manage the risk. In 2017, in what was widely seen as a panicked response to the South Australia blackout and the Finkel Review, the AEMC introduced new rules – known as the “do no harm” rule – that put the emphasis on new generators to “make good” any assumed threat to the grid their added capacity might create. ....