Data deliberations

In this Weekly Dispatch:

1. The Reliability Panel published a draft report for the 2026 Reliability Standard and Settings Review, draft modelling results suggest a reliability standard from 0.002 to 0.004 per cent unserved energy best promotes customers’ long-term interests.
2. Housing, renewables and mining projects may speed up under new environment laws.
3. Powerlink released a report that identifies eight emerging opportunities that they see for BESS to support the transmission network and the broader power system.
4. The Climate Council released an article on the data centre boom and their impacts on the grid.
5. Third renewable energy company discovers asbestos in wind farm turbine lifts.
6. Podcast of the week: Columbia Energy Exchange talks about the World Energy Outlook.