The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has made administrative changes to eight guidelines to account for the Integrating Energy Storage Systems rule change.
The changes predominantly involved updating references to relevant participant categories to refer to the new Integrated Resource Provider (IRP) categories, as well as updating descriptions of rules requirements. No material changes have been made to the guidelines.
The following guidelines have been amended:
- Connection Charge Guidelines,
- Export Tariff Guidelines (with incorporated Basic Export Level Guidelines),
- Generator Notice of Closure Exemption Guidelines,
- Rebidding & Technical Parameters Guidelines,
- three Retailer Reliability Obligation Guidelines (the interim Contracts & Firmness Guidelines, the Opt-In Guidelines and the interim Market Liquidity Obligation Guidelines), and
- Wholesale Demand Response Participation Guidelines.
Please contact the AER at AERinquiry
aer [dot] gov [dot] au (AERinquiry[at]aer[dot]gov[dot]au) with any questions or concerns.
About the IESS rule change
The IESS rule change introduced a new “IRP” participant category. Storage facilities and hybrid facilities (grid-scale facilities that have a group of assets co-located behind a single connection point that allow a registered participant to both consume and export significant amounts of electricity from or to the grid) are now able to register under the one market participant category rather than as both a generator and a load. Existing entities of this type, including small generation aggregators, have been transitioned to the new IRP category.