AGL’s submission to including aggregated resources in the Capacity Investment Scheme

AGL strongly supports efforts to accelerate the uptake of consumer energy resources (CER) and other aggregated resources.

However, the CIS is poorly targeted towards this objective. The focus of CIS funding should instead remain on supporting large-scale eligible resources as it was designed to do.

A key issue with using the CIS to fund customer-owned resources is a high risk of adverse customer outcomes through misaligned CIS incentives.

There are several existing alternative programs to support aggregated resources with better customer and system-wide benefits. These should be utilised instead of the CIS.

Read the full submission (PDF).