Tim Stanton

Over the past three years, the Australian Government has been developing an internationally aligned Guarantee of Origin scheme to measure, track and verify the carbon emissions and other attributes of Australian clean energy products and to certify renewable energy. Consultation is now open to inform the final legislation and the drafting of regulations to give effect to the scheme.

04 Oct 2023 Time to read: 7 MIN Over the past three years, the Australian Government has been developing an internationally aligned Guarantee of Origin scheme to measure, track and verify the carbon emissions and other attributes of Australian clean energy products and to certify renewable energy. Consultation is now open to inform the final legislation and the drafting of regulations to give effect to the scheme.

Grid expansion usually means more power stations and wires. Far from simple, and very expensive. Non-Wires Alternatives (NWA) solve the problem differently by reducing net demand. Modern methods of energy efficiency, demand response, storage, and distributed generation are coordinated and used instead, under the banner of Distributed Energy Resources (DER). Crucially, it can cast utility firms in the role of market makers, not just generators and distributors.