Through the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, the Australian Government should lead cross-sector coordination to harness technological scale and facilitate effective collaboration, in partnership with the Distributed Energy Integrated Program, electricity network businesses and energy market bodies.
Together, these organisations should coordinate strategies to address key issues including:
• smart electricity tariffs to support electric vehicles (see the Sustainability and resilience chapter)
• appropriate costs allocation for the grid upgrades required to accommodate electric vehicles
• unifying approaches to modelling electric vehicle demand by transport agencies and infrastructure companies to inform distribution network planning
• capturing and sharing data to improve system modelling and planning, such as through distributed energy resource asset registers
• making vehicle charging behaviour visible to help operate the network
• agreeing charging infrastructure standards with state and territory departments and the Australian Building Codes Board (see the Transport chapter)
• establishing cross-Jurisdictional technical specifications for zero-emission heavy vehicles (see the Transport chapter)
• ensuring transport agencies and the electric vehicle industry understand how electricity network regulation framework and planning timeframes affect the potential uptake of electric vehicles.