Post 2025 Market Design Issues Paper – September 2019

The COAG Energy Council requested the Energy Security Board (ESB) advise on a long-term, fit-for-purpose market framework to support reliability, modifying the National Electricity Market (NEM) as necessary to meet the needs of future diverse sources of non-dispatchable generation and flexible resources including demand side response, storage and distributed energy resource participation.

The ESB is seeking feedback on:

• the possible future scenarios that will be used when assessing options for change

• the assessment framework for evaluating market design options

• the opportunities, challenges and risks that need to be considered as the project looks to identify market design options; and

• the implications for market design resulting from these opportunities, challenges and risk.

Feedback received will inform the development of the next phase of the post 2025 market design project.