EUAA Submission: AEMO Draft 2025 Gas Infrastructure Options Report Consultation
Emily Wood | June 23, 2025
The 2026 ISP will consider constraints in the gas networks as an input to the ability of gas powered generation to contribute to supply during dunkelflaute and system security generally. The draft report is the first consultation on this matter. Getting the options right will reduce costs to consumers.
‘Thank you for the opportunity to make a submission under the Draft 2025 Gas Infrastructure Options Report (Options Report). We commend AEMO on the work undertaken in previous Integrated System Plans that identifies the critical role Gas Power Generation (GPG) will play in a National Electricity Market (NEM) dominated by Variable Renewable Energy (VRE) firmed by gas.
We welcome the publication of the Options Report as the first stage of getting a better understanding of the issues associated with ensuring there is sufficient gas transport and storage infrastructure available for peak gas demand to service the 15GW of GPG the 2024 ISP concluded is needed between now and 2050.
We were concerned that the original intent of Ministers pointed to AEMO developing an optimal development path for gas infrastructure as they do for electricity. This was always going to be a difficult task given gas infrastructure is not developed like electricity with the former driven by negotiations between producer and consumer while the latter through the rules’ framework of RIT-T/State jurisdictional schemes….’
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