Outdated energy market threatens supply security

By Brian Robins
Updated March 28 2017 - 6:10pm, first published 6:01pm

The operator of the nation's energy markets has warned that Australia's electricity market is out of date and needs to be overhauled as it faces another summer at the end of 2017 that brings with it the threat of power supply shortages as hot weather causes a spike in energy demand and overwhelms available supplies.