ESIA Submission: NSW ESS&PDRS Statutory Reviews Draft Reports, 11 June 2025
ESIA welcomes some stand out draft high level findings that:
- both schemes:
- continue to have valid objectives and design as market-based certificate schemes.
- could better support national action on emissions abatement as well as reliability risks as part of the energy transition.
- can deliver more benefits via broader reforms under consideration later in 2025.
- the ESS has some challenges with new activities and a growing ESC surplus that may require further government action to address.
- the PDRS:
- design may need a change to address that NSW winter peak demand is growing (the scheme currently reduces summer peak demand only).
- cost of creating PRCs has not been researched yet and it will be important to include in future reviews. (ESIA members that are ACPs could assist in targeted consultation in the near term on this matter, e.g. ACPs accredited for BESS 1 activity paused on 1 June 2025.)
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