Default Judgement

In this Weekly Dispatch:

1. The AER releases its draft determination on the 2025-26 default market offer, with the DMO rising by between 2.5% and 8.9% depending on where you are.
2. Windlab’s Junction Rivers project fails to secure REZ access after winning underwriting through CIS tender.
3. A review of the AEMC wholesale demand response mechanism gets underway.
4. Rio Tinto buys 20 years of energy and storage from Edify Energy’s Smoky Creek and Guthrie’s Gap assets for its Gladstone operations.
5. Vast Renewables land conditional $180m from ARENA for concentrated solar thermal project near Port Augusta.
6. Hanwha has won the contract to supply batteries for Ark Energy’s Richmond Valley BESS project.
7. WattClarity look at how the Frequency Performance Payments changes will affect different market participants.
8. Podcast of the Week: The Redefining Energy podcast talk about developments in PPAs in Europe and the US.