A level playing field for local energy (Issues Paper prepared for the City of Sydney)

摘要: The Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) is a university research institute established by the University of Technology, Sydney in 1996 to work with industry, government and the community to develop sustainable futures through research and consultancy. Our mission is to create change toward sustainable futures that protect and enhance the environment, human wellbeing and social equity. Our work is future focused; we are committed to building independent capacity in our clients by passing on knowledge and skills. In this way, we create lasting change. In all our work, we aim to provide outcomes of a quality commensurate with the importance of our mission.ISF has been a leading proponent for the value of decentralised energy in electricity systems since heading a research cluster from on the market benefits and effects of large scale local energy in the Intelligent Grid (iGRID) national collaboration from 2008-2010. ISF has conducted extensive research on the value of DE in the NSW energy system, and developed modelling tools specifically to internalise network costs into energy planning. ISF also has an in-depth understanding of the need for market mechanisms to incentivise local solutions, and further, that the lack of appropriate cost reflective mechanisms is stifling the growth of local energy.