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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?

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Megan Woods

Member for Wigram · Labour Party

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  • 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?

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Hon Simeon Brown

Member for Pakuranga · National Party · Minister for Energy

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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.