Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks very much, Senator Van. You are right to make the point that the technology potentially could have a real impact on the projections for both demand and supply in the National Electricity Market. We are at a point in time where the technologies that are available to us are evolving and changing. It is for that reason that AEMO not only regularly updates projections and updates the systems plan but also makes sure that, when it does that, it engages very closely with a range of stakeholders to make sure that the assumptions that they are using and the inputs they are obtaining reflect broadly the understanding in the market about the technologies that are afoot and coming towards us. Right now, we do not have a particularly large number of vehicles with this capacity ready to go in this market. But that could change, and I am quite certain AEMO will be watching this as they update, as they regularly do, their projections. (Time expired)