The Record
Every submission, and what came back.
Everything Ridgeline puts on the public record, and what came back. Evidence, not assertion — literally.
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Submission — FESO 2027 Approach to Determining Scenarios
The draft scenario set is clear, plausible and internally consistent, but it is not yet stressed where a 2050 investment plan most needs stressing — so the submission asks for five additions the existing machinery can carry: a genuinely divergent case pairing high load growth with slow global decarbonisation, a water and climate sensitivity including renewable drought, consent treated as a modelling input rather than an assumption, the thermal-exit and gas levers surfaced as named sensitivities, and a very large load tested without co-located generation.
Read the submission (PDF, 8 pages) ↗
Outcome EPWA replied in July 2026 with preliminary responses to all five requests, noting that feedback will be considered alongside other submissions as the draft Methodology, Inputs, Scenarios and Assumptions (MISA) document is developed. On divergence: merit acknowledged, with a sensitivity to the Constrained scenario or a very-large-load case study suggested instead of a fourth scenario. On water and climate: a methodology ensuring resource traces include renewable drought is being finalised and is expected to be detailed in the MISA, and water availability as a constraint on demand growth was described as consistent with other feedback received and capable of being recognised in FESO. On consent as a modelling input: to be considered. On the buried levers: varying the exact exit of thermal plant is noted as a potential sensitivity, and a gas sensitivity remains intended. On co-location: a very large load without co-located generation was described as a logical sensitivity and a strong candidate.
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Brief comment — National Water Reform 2026
The constraint on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander water interests is no longer recognition but activation, so the final assessment should measure shared authority and activated water rather than representation and entitlement volume alone — recognising commercial partnership and equity models as a legitimate activation pathway with decision rights and retained value protected, funding independent capability and brokerage for native title bodies, and keeping visible the fact that cultural water cannot be given binding security where planning is non-statutory, as it is in Western Australia.
Outcome Awaiting the Commission's final inquiry report.
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Submission — Fitzroy–Derby Water Resources Management Plan
An Aboriginal Water Holding is only self-determination if Traditional Owners hold the decision rights and the retained value, so the submission offers a practical framework of questions for Traditional Owner-led co-design — balancing those rights against the certainty an investable arrangement needs — in support of Traditional Owner authority and the Kimberley Land Council, not speaking for them.
Outcome Consultation closed; plan finalisation pending. Our reading of the draft and the partnership gap it leaves is published as a briefing: After the draft: the Fitzroy plan and the partnership gap →
Submissions are lodged in a personal professional capacity and are not made for, or on behalf of, any client.
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