CMP471 would open a one-off window for projects stuck in the queue reform to push back contracted dates. Developers say they face up to 30 months with no way to change them.
Import capacity agreed at the connection stage was withdrawn after the plant was built, and the storage business case went with it.
A CUSC modification puts a price on staying in the connections queue, starting at £3,000 per MW and rising to £25,000. Consultation closes on 1 October.
Refining margins, not crude alone, are carrying the increase. EIA's breakdown shows where each dollar at the pump is going.
Four projects, AU$1.8 billion, and roughly 8% of the state's summer peak - all of it batteries, none of it gas.
Europe's assessment finds no problem in Portugal. The national one finds a shortfall growing fiftyfold by 2035. ACER's opinion is about the modelling, not the lights.
