Electricity Networks and Customer Participation branch
Distributed Energy Networks (DER) Participation team
Delivering the State Government’s Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Roadmap and Electric Vehicles (EV) Action Plan to integrate customer rooftop solar, batteries and EVs with the power system and help consumers, the grid and the clean energy transition.
Electricity Network Regulation team
Managing policy to do with the regulation of Western Australia’s electricity networks. Managing how Western Power and Horizon Power integrate DER and maintain power system security and reliability.
Government Trading Enterprises Oversight team
Providing advice to the Minister for Energy on the operations, strategies, and obligations of Western Power, Horizon Power and Synergy.
Planning and Coordination branch
Planning and Analytics team
Delivering the Whole of System Plan, which models the transmission, generation and storage capacity needed for the future, depending on energy demand. This team also provides energy related data and analytics services for the Minister for Energy and other areas of the business.
Electricity Decarbonisation team
Energy Policy WA's Electricity Decarbonisation team facilitates decarbonisation solutions for the electricity sector, working with government, industry and other key stakeholders to provide advice and support on decarbonisation priorities for Western Australia's electricity sector.
Wholesale Markets team
The regulatory framework for Western Australia's energy sector underpins the Wholesale Electricity Market and related Electricity Systems and Market Rules, the Gas Services Information Rules and the Pilbara Networks Rules, and allows for these markets, and relevant rules and procedures to evolve over time.
The Wholesale Markets team supports the Coordinator of Energy in fulfilling its statutory functions and responsibilities under this framework, including the market evolution, and rules development/administration for the:
Wholesale Electricity Market
The Wholesale Electricity Market supplies electricity to more than a million households and businesses in the State's south-west via the South-West Interconnected System (SWIS).
Gas Services Information framework
The Gas Services Information (GSI) framework facilitates competition by improving transparency of information in the Western Australian gas market.
Pilbara Electricity System
The North-West Interconnected System (NWIS) supplies electricity to a number of major towns and the resources industry in the Pilbara region.
The Wholesale Markets team also provides Secretariat services to the Market Advisory Committee, the Gas Advisory Board and the Pilbara Advisory Committee and supports the independent Chair of these committees.
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