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Aemo says it ‘wants to understand comprehensively the lessons learned’, with trading to resume at 4am on Thursday

An unprecedented intervention in Australia's east coast energy market will be gradually removed over the next day, with authorities increasingly confident in the supply of wholesale electricity.

A crisis, as the saying has it, combines danger and opportunity. The dangers of the current electricity crisis are obvious. The opportunity it presents is to end to the failed experiment of the national electricity market.

The Australian Energy Market Operator has outlined a staged approach to restoring the national energy market following its intervention last week.

The suspension of Australia's east coast energy market could be lifted as early as Thursday, but the market operator is warning the challenges managing supply and demand may continue.

Discussion has largely focused on the need to generate more energy. But there's another way to ease strain on the system – by using less energy.

Australia’s east coast energy market has been on a rocky road for the past few weeks. It begs the question: how could the market change to avoid the next crisis?

The shock suspension last week of Australia’s wholesale electricity market rekindled an age-old debate about whether the energy sector should be nationalised – in other words, owned and controlled by government.

Weather extremes have deepened the man-made power crisis in ways that were hard to predict and at times even harder to imagine. Both Snowy Hydro and coal-fired power stations have been impacted by summer rains. And two weeks of extreme cold has only brought the power system closer to the…

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