Exposure Draft - Tranche 4B Amending Wholesale Electricity Market Rules

The exposure draft of the Tranche 4B Amending Wholesale Electricity Market Rules incorporates proposed changes to the WEM Rules to continue the implementation of the WA Government’s Energy Transformation Strategy.
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The exposure draft of Tranche 4B of Amending Rules to implement new Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) arrangements includes draft amendments relating to:

  • Under Frequency Load Shedding requirements
  • Rule change management for WEM Technical Standards 
  • Transitional rules for Automatic Generation Control dispatch
  • Generator Performance Standards
  • Various matters related to the Reserve Capacity Mechanism (RCM)
  • Aligning the new availability declarations process with the RCM
  • Aligning the electric storage constraints opt-in process for storage facilities with the RCM 
  • The treatment of voluntary reduction of capacity credits by demand side programs 

A copy exposure draft of the Tranche 4B Amending WEM Rules can be found below.

The consultation period has ended and all the submissions we received can be found below.