AGL’s submission in response to the AEMC's draft determination on improving the access standards of the NEM

AGL has made a submission in response to the AEMC’s draft determination on improving the access standards of the NEM. AGL is broadly supportive of the package of changes to the National Electricity Rules proposed by the AEMC as set out in its draft rule determination. However, AGL considers the proposal to require asynchronous production units to have facilities that are capable, in some circumstances, of automatically disconnecting units following unstable behaviour could introduce unnecessary risk to the power system. Instead of automatic disconnection, AGL considers that requiring the immediate manual disconnection after receiving instructions from AEMO and the Network Service Provider in response to sustained active power, reactive power or voltage oscillations at the Connection Point beyond the agreed thresholds as defined by the asynchronous production units' control and protection settings would strike the right balance without introducing an unnecessary risk to power system security.

Read the full submission here.