Australia’s electricity network transformation roadmap

The Australian national research organisation CSIRO and the Energy Networks Association (ENA) launched the interim report of the Electricity Network Transformation Roadmap project.

The Electricity Network Transformation Roadmap will assist Australia’s electricity system to support customer choice and control, reduce costs, ensure fairness and deliver the clean energy transition.

Key findings in the Interim Report include:

• In the next ten years, storage costs could fall by approximately two-thirds and the cost of solar panels will fall by a third.
• outlook for long-term electricity customer bills has improved since 2013 modelling and are expected to remain the same share of average household expenditure (2-3 %) as they are today – due partly to the benefits of battery storage to the system.
• The electricity sector could play a significant role in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with up to 51% abatement in the sector by 2030.
• The electricity grid has a key enabling role in all scenarios although it may be used very differently – as a ‘platform’ for new energy services.

> Read the report