33949 (2026). Hon Dr Megan Woods to the Minister for Energy

33949 (2026). Hon Dr Megan Woods to the Minister for Energy: What evidence, if any, was used to determine that a distributed demand response as an investment option to provide dry year cover would have a scale of generation likely to be small?

Hon Simeon Brown: I understand that MBIE considered the scale of back-up generation capacity among large-scale users. This suggested the likely capacity of the option would be well short of the scale required to provide sufficient dry-year cover, and there would have been substantial work required to test the option’s feasibility.