As part of the Victorian Government's mandated rollout of AMI in Victoria, the Order in Council made under Sections 15A and 46D of the Electricity Industry Act 2000, 28 August 2007 and as amended by the Order in Council No S 314, 25 November 2008, the five electricity distributors were required to provide the AER with their initial 2009-11 budget application by Friday 27 February 2009.

As certain information provided by the distributors to the AER is commercial in confidence, sensitive information has been removed from these applications.

The distribution network service providers (DNSPs) were required to provide their initial AMI charges applications, covering the period 2010 and 2011, to the AER by 1 June 2009. The purpose of the charges application is to recover expenditure incurred in response to the Victorian government's decision to mandate the rollout of AMI to all customers consuming less than 160MWh per annum. Meter service charges recover the costs associated with meter installation and meter data service costs. These documents do not include data that if made public might limit distributors' negotiations with suppliers and hinder competitive pricing outcomes.

The DNSPs also provided a joint submission outlining the debt risk premium they propose to adopt for the initial AMI Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) period.