At present a significant bias against demand management exists within the National Electricity Market (NEM). As a result, ATA believes that extensive and significant changes need to be made to the National Electricity Rules in order to create an environment where demand management initiatives are considered a real alternative where network constraints exist. Failure to adopt significant changes to the Rules will result in the continuation of an inefficient NEM which fails to achieve the NEM Objective: “…to promote efficient investment in, and use of, electricity services for the term interests of consumers of electricity…”

The adoption of demand management solutions, including distributed renewable generation and cogeneration, offers the potential to reduce the need for network augmentation, electricity consumption and resultant greenhouse gas emissions, as well as improving the efficiency and the reliability of the network. As such, ATA offered broad support for the demand management rule change proposal.

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