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EY Oceania accused of potential conflict of interest over government contracts on climate policy

The Guardian: Energy

But a bipartisan group of politicians and transparency advocates is not convinced and has demanded more information. The firm, which is a member of the oil and gas lobby and audits Santos , insists there was no conflict of interest between its work for industry and government.

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Australia tests residentially aggregated flexible demand

Smart Energy International

The project is being called an Australian first, demonstrating aggregated flexible demand in residential settings. The project will pioneer the coordination of residential CER and smart appliances to better match energy use to supply and respond to market signals, shifting households’ energy use away from peak demand periods.

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Demand response a key element for a reinvented grid to reach net zero

Smart Energy International

Demand response and energy management are a crucial part of the solution to make Australia’s fast-changing electricity sector work reliably, writes Diogo Cabral, Senior Business Development at GridBeyond. Winter has many evenings of moderately high demand that generation supplied by rooftop PV and small-scale storage cannot serve.

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Why Build a Power Plant if You Can Make a Virtual One?

GreenTechMedia

But with carbon emissions out of fashion and growing levels of demand response and distributed renewables on the grid, virtual power plants are stepping in to replace those central generators. Areas with growing electricity demand may require new power plants, even if some of it can be supplanted by distributed generation.

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ARENA and Shell Energy to demonstrate commercial flexibility in Australia

Smart Energy International

Shell Energy’s ‘Commercialising Smart Energy Hubs’ project will recruit at least 40 commercial and industrial (C&I) customer sites to demonstrate flexible demand capacity. To achieve the full potential of flexible demand, we will require new innovation, technologies and market processes. million ($5.7 million ($19.7

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SUEZ, Vodafone aim to implement over 2 million NB-IoT smart water meters by 2030

Smart Energy International

The remote reading of water meters is a key tool for managing water supplies on both the supply and demand sides, with the potential to enable early leak detection and consumption monitoring by consumers.

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GridBeyond launches operations in Australia

Smart Energy International

Dublin headquartered GridBeyond, a specialist in demand response, continues its expansion with its presence in Australia. GridBeyond will provide AI-powered demand response, virtual power plant (VPP) services and generation and storage asset optimisation across Australia’s National Electricity Market.