Some industrial businesses Consumers remain connected and Large industrial users remain Industrial move offshore or scale back largely grid reliant connected, but look to more suffer higher operations as a result of high energy efficiency options prices gas prices Some consumers look to energy Commercial service providers for options to Some industry and lower prices participants Industrial respond to Some fuel substitution due to incentives to rising gas prices implement renewables Network providers dominate Prevalence of energy service Micro-grids, as well as Incentives for the provision of alternative providers and alternative individual generation and local scale services business models storage deployment uptake of Alternative renewables to services grow generation projects Gas prices High Medium and rising Medium and rising High Some centralised gas-fired Provides significantly lower Substantially less demand being Smaller number generation replaced by proportion of household load as a met through the wholesale of generators renewable generation result of off-grid options market competing for dispatch Wholesale Commercial and industrial market sectors, as well as hybrid and While some base electric vehicle (EV) load sustain load plants the wholesale market remain, almost all intermediate
Commercial and Industrial Some industrial businesses move offshore or scale back operations as a result of high gas prices Consumers remain connected and largely grid reliant Some consumers look to energy service providers for options to lower prices Some fuel substitution due to rising gas prices Large industrial users remain connected, but look to more energy efficiency options Industrial suffer higher prices Some industry participants respond to incentives to implement renewables Alternative services Network providers dominate the provision of alternative services Prevalence of energy service providers and alternative business models Micro-grids, as well as individual generation and storage deployment Incentives for local scale uptake of renewables to grow generation projects Gas prices High Medium and rising Medium and rising High Wholesale market Some centralised gas-fired generation replaced by renewable generation Provides significantly lower proportion of household load as a result of off-grid options Commercial and industrial sectors, as well as hybrid and electric vehicle (EV) load sustain the wholesale market Substantially less demand being met through the wholesale market Smaller number of generators competing for dispatch While some base load plants remain, almost all intermediate
Description%20of%20Scenarios%20-%20Feb%202015.docx