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Ben Potter

Journalist at the AFR covering energy and climate, and other business things. Former companies editor, Washington correspondent, opinion ed. opinions mine

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Articles

  • Transgrid CEO sees light at tunnel’s end on high voltage links

    1 week ago | theenergy.co | Ben Potter

    Transgrid CEO Brett Redman sees light at the end of the tunnel of delays and cost blowouts on multibillion transmission projects, with a key South-Australia-NSW connection nearing completion and a controversial link from the giant Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro storage project to the NSW grid soon to begin construction. Redman said planning delays had not been entirely solved but “the frustration of things taking forever” was starting to lift.

  • AEMO Services in box seat for ‘central entity’ role

    1 week ago | theenergy.co | Ben Potter

    The head of the panel reviewing the National Electricity Market (NEM) says a business unit of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) is in the box seat to fulfil a “central entity” contracting role the panel is considering as a key reform.

  • Energy rule maker weighs equity in gas ‘death spiral’

    2 weeks ago | theenergy.co | Ben Potter

    The Australian Energy Market Commission will examine one of the most vexed issues in the energy transition – how to fairly share the costs of the so-called “death spiral” of gas distribution networks being abandoned by customers electrifying their households and businesses.

  • Mission Possible: Nelson review seeks ‘central entity’

    2 weeks ago | theenergy.co | Ben Potter

    Like Tom Cruise and his maverick gang in the Mission Impossible films, National Electricity Market review chair Tim Nelson is seeking an entity. But the industry veteran’s panel wants a “central entity” to stand up a long term energy contracts market to stimulate investment in clean generation and firming power - not a rogue artificial intelligence known only as “The Entity”.

  • NEM review chooses contracts over ‘capacity’, eyes network tariffs nobbling CER

    3 weeks ago | theenergy.co | Ben Potter

    A review panel headed by industry veteran Tim Nelson is preparing a major shakeup of the National Electricity Market to extensively modify the pure ‘energy only’ spot market set up in 1998. The recommendations in an interim report due next month will include a beefed-up derivatives market to encourage generation investment, a bigger role for consumer and distributed energy resources such as home batteries and a critical eye on distribution network tariffs that deter consumer participation.

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Ben Potter
Ben Potter @OBenPotter
31 May 24

Outstanding 💯

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Ben Potter
Ben Potter @OBenPotter
6 May 24

Interesting move — David Di Pilla appoints ⁦@JuliaGillard⁩ to chair $2bn Energy Transition Fund- https://t.co/IHCS7P3Szp

Ben Potter
Ben Potter @OBenPotter
30 Apr 24

And let coal power emissions rip in the 15-20 years it will take to deliver? — a fiendishly brilliant scheme to do nothing about decarbonisation for two decades well done

Centre for Independent Studies
Centre for Independent Studies @CISOZ

At CIS’s energy event with Chris Uhlmann, @QuixoticQuant, Helen Cook and Adi Paterson right now. If we want to implement an energy system that is reliable, sustainable and intergenerational, the only real solution is nuclear. https://t.co/tSUnjfZZBi