Benn Barr

Chief Executive at the Australian Energy Market Commission @the_AEMC

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@AnnaCollyer13, Chair of @the_AEMC in @UtilityMag on the AEMC's recommendations on metering, the once-in-a-generation transformation of the power system, and the changing ways that customers interact with energy in their homes:
https://t.co/vgcFIqElmi

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.@the_AEMC honours the history, culture, contribution, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This week we celebrate the #NAIDOCWEEK theme ‘For our Elders’: https://t.co/DnhL7sNPch #NAIDOCWeek2023

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“I said before, there’s no transition without transmission. I might also add, the consumer is the hero on the road to net zero.” #AEW2023

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“If we can do this well, we can save by needing to build fewer large-scale assets and we can share the benefits of consumer assets in a way that reduces – not increases – the energy divide.”

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“Today only 72,000 or so homes and small businesses in Australia have batteries. Our analysis says that if installation only continues at the rate of the past three years – we will see more than 1 million homes with batteries by 2030.”

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Ms Collyer emphasised the role consumers will play in achieving net zero targets with the utilisation of CER.
“Increasingly customers are self-funding reliability to some degree. We are now nudging 3.5M small solar PV panel systems; a world-leading per capita level of generation"

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@AnnaCollyer13, Chair of @the_AEMC has opened Australian Energy Week 2023 #AEW2023 with a keynote address calling out the enormous and complex challenge involved in getting Australia to net zero, while minimising costs for energy consumers.

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Have your say on options to improve financing arrangements for the delivery of new transmission projects needed for the transformation of the energy system and a cleaner energy future:
https://t.co/bZDpkfTADd

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.@the_AEMC extends a warm welcome to Mr Jarrod Ball & Ms Lynne Gallagher, who have both been appointed to the board of the @aergovau. We look forward to working with you closely as we continue the transition towards a net zero energy sector https://t.co/xeVYb0ba3C @jarrodmball

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Today we announce that Michelle Shepherd will end her tenure as Commissioner @the_AEMC. We congratulate her on her new role as Chair of Synergy’s Board and wish her all the best for the next stage of her career.

More:
https://t.co/R1ZWQh4pKc

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Dealing with issues including social licence, workforce and investor confidence, Ms Collyer’s speech last night described the way ahead as ‘imagination meeting opportunity’. Access the full speech:

https://t.co/xiBtYQtanW

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In her oration for @InfraPshipAust, @AnnaCollyer13 has addressed the scale of the energy transformation, telling the infrastructure sector, ‘You can’t put a plaque on saving the world, but you’ll look back at what you’ve built, and you’ll know what you did.’ #InfraAwards23

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.@the_AEMC Chair @AnnaCollyer13 told the private sector there’s more than enough work in energy for us all to make a mark, ‘whether that’s the building of new transmission, generation, storage and markets or infrastructure employing low emissions plant.’ #InfraAwards23

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.@the_AEMC Chair @AnnaCollyer13 has addressed the scale & significance of Australia’s energy transformation in an oration for @InfraPshipAust, calling on the infrastructure sector to look for the ‘meeting of imagination and opportunity’ in order to ‘innovate and participate.’

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‘Please, don’t wait. There will be no greater opportunity in this century to build things that really change the planet.’

@the_AEMC Chair @AnnaCollyer13 in her call to action during the annual oration for @InfraPshipAust tonight.

#InfraAwards23 #InfraAwards

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.@the_AEMC Chair @AnnaCollyer13 has addressed the scale & significance of Australia’s energy transformation in an oration for @InfraPshipAust, calling on the infrastructure sector to look for the ‘meeting of imagination and opportunity’ in order to ‘innovate and participate.’

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@the_AEMC Commissioner Tim Jordan today at the Australian Energy & Battery Storage Conference:

"Innovators and technologists continue to bring seemingly impossible ambitions within our reach – and there’s capital to support it."

Full speech: https://t.co/jWTChD7q8p

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"This is the challenge ahead if we are to build a new system that is going to transform, be resilient and innovate over the next 10 years."

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@BennBarr1 today at @InfraPshipAust:
"As a rule maker we need to listen – we need to work with industry, investors, and governments to get it done. Sometimes that means disagreeing and saying things that are difficult. But it does mean truly listening."

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"The time for magical thinking is over. Whether you are a rule maker, investor, industry representative of government, the time for working together on hard issues is here – the time for simple slogans that dumb-down key reforms is long, long gone."