EUAA Submission: DCCEEW Aggregated Resources In The Capacity Investment Scheme – Consultation Paper
Emily Wood | August 5, 2025
DCCEEW are proposing to add aggregated resources to the CIS. In general, aggregated resources are either already built or receive funding through other mechanisms (eg SRES). Adding these to the CIS will make the CIS less effective, increase system security requirements and cost consumers more.
‘… We do not support the inclusion of aggregated resources in the CIS.
The EUAA supports proposed policy and legislative changes where evidence points to an issue and the proposed rule change clearly leads to improved efficiency of markets and/or improved system security and where the costs and risks are appropriately allocated to those best able to manage them. The EUAA does not support approaches that lack evidence, increase costs for consumers or are not consistent with the NEO more broadly.
The CIS is an Australian Government revenue underwriting scheme specifically designed to accelerate investment in large scale (>30MW) renewable energy generation and dispatchable capacity to assist in delivering the Government’s target of 82% renewable electricity by 2030.
The CIS is not, and should not provide additional financial or underwriting support to projects that already receive financial support through other mechanisms and/or infrastructure that has already been or will be built….’
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