Australia can move forward with renewables - by leveraging tariffs and the Prosumer

In the past we had limited but effective discretionary (or controllable) loads.

Today we have changed the consumption environment - changing to "prosumers" with a wide range of distributed energy sources and discretionary loads.

Our challenge is to engage the regulators to allow opportunistic "use of energy" and "dispatch of energy" based on the market price and grid capacity and constraints. In fact homes are morphing to predominately discretionary loads (EV charging, Hot Water, Pool pumps) rather than non-discretionary loads (lights, TV's, refrigerators).  Dispatch would include rooftop PV or energy stored in a battery. Discretionary use would include using your own battery, charging a car during a time when solar was not valued as feed in into the grid, or at night when the grid load is low and wholesale price is low.