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Alison Reeve, Deputy Program Director, Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute

Wondering what to make of warnings about our electricity system? The outlook is improving – but we’re not out of the woods

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Every year, authorities release a snapshot of how reliable our electricity supply will be in the coming decade. And each time, commentators have divergent takes on what it all means.

So it is with the latest reliability snapshot released by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) on Thursday. Essentially, the report says the national electricity grid – which serves the five eastern states and the ACT – is in a better place than last year. But we’re not out of the woods.

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