Australia’s National Wind Farm Commissioner’s role will be expanded to cover new major transmission projects from Friday. Andrew Dyer, who took office in 2015, will now be known as the Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner and will help to resolve complaints and concerns about transmission projects regarding the design, planning, construction, and operation phases. He will also assist industry and government to adopt best practices when deploying projects. “Transmission investment is crucial to the security and affordability of our grid,” Energy Minister Angus Taylor said in a press release. “As these critically important transmission projects take shape, we want to ensure that any concerns community members have are heard and resolved in the appropriate way, and the Commissioner’s expanded role will facilitate this.” An example is the concern over Hume Link, a Government-supported transmission project which will transmit power from Snowy Hydro south of Canberra to the main electricity grid. The communities …