This report presents an assessment of the rooftop solar potential across Australia's housing stock. It has a particular focus on social housing, apartments and private rental housing - three sectors that are significantly under-represented in Australia's world-leading uptake of residential solar.

The growing adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs) across Australia may represent the start of a transition of Australia's power system from a centraliased generation model towards an interconnected set of embedded microgrid systems. In these systems, local trading of coincident generation and consumption is being explored, with the idea that this would encourage consumer...

Recent regulatory reform efforts in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) have included a number of rule changes aiming to contain electricity price rises driven by network investment by distributed network service providers (DNSPs). One focus area has been the economic inefficiencies of current network tariff arrangements, particularly for residential and small business consumers. These...