Overview
With the growing penetration of Consumer Energy Resources (CER) across Australia, effective data access and sharing arrangements among network and system operators, market participants and consumers and their representatives is critical to support system security and emergency management, network visibility and the effective orchestration of CER.
Australia has not yet implemented an integrated and common set of arrangements for data availability, access, sharing, and the standards applicable to CER-related devices and coordination. Divergent approaches risk leading to higher costs, creating barriers to the development of future services, and increased data security concerns than would otherwise be necessary.
To tackle the challenges of effectively integrating CER into the power system and energy markets, the Energy and Climate Change Ministerial Council (ECMC) released its National CER Roadmap in July 2024, outlining national reform priorities. This project—Data Sharing Arrangements to inform planning and enable future markets (M2)—in parallel with the Redefine roles for market and power systems operations workstream (M3/P5) aligns with, and identifies the key capabilities and associated gaps, in relation to data and data sharing across the power system and energy markets.
