This is Energy Consumers Australia’s second major submission to the Energy security Board (ESB) on the Post 2025 Market Design work program, following our September 2019 response to the Issues Paper. In that submission (PDF, 502.48KB) we outlined our vision for a future energy system and a framework for getting there.
Read our submission (PDF, 1.32MB)
The ESB has progressed its thinking in the last 12 months, with detail emerging about a package of inter-related market design initiatives in the Consultation Paper. In this submission we comment on the design issues most directly relevant to the experience of household and small business energy consumers in the future energy system through the lens of the framework we discussed in our first submission. Importantly, we also reflect on what the COVID-19 pandemic, and the summer bushfires, means for the way we think about and design of the future energy system, the design of markets and the challenges in managing the transition.
