A shared community battery storage system in Western Australia. Image: Horizon Power.
Australia’s Clean Energy Council has joined calls for the country to adopt a deployment target for energy storage, while arguing that a proposed capacity mechanism plan be scrapped.
The national Energy Security Board (ESB) published a draft high-level design proposal for a capacity mechanism earlier this month and is seeking input from stakeholders until 25 July.
Amid concerns Australia’s energy crisis won’t be solved in a business-as-usual scenario, the mechanism would be introduced into the National Electricity Market (NEM) which covers six Australian states.
Last week, Energy-Storage.news reported that the Clean Energy Council trade body had warned against including coal generators in the capacity mechanism as proposed. Australia’s energy policies should squarely focus…