Guidelines, schemes, models and reviews

We are reviewing our compliance procedures and guidelines. Submissions on the draft Guidelines are invited from interested stakeholders by 19 April 2024.

This guideline sets out how transportation facility operators should record and maintain nomination and renomination data relevant to the AER’s monitoring funct

We are undertaking a consultative process for amending the Capital Expenditure Incentive Guideline.

The AER Compliance Procedures and Guidelines provide guidance and information to service providers about their legislative and reporting requirements.

Expenditure Forecast Assessment Guideline describe the process, techniques and associated data requirements for our approach to setting efficient expenditure

We have updated the Better Resets Handbook to accommodate the addition of the emissions reduction objective to the existing National Energy Objectives.

AER updated its capital expenditure incentives guideline and efficiency benefit sharing scheme to accommodate the amended National Energy Objectives.

The intent of the annual updates is to provide stakeholders with information on rate of return data changes since the publication of the most recent Instrument.

The AER's final guidance note on how we will address material impacts on the benchmarking results of differences in electricity DNSP's capitalisation process

The Rate of Return Instrument (the Instrument) sets out the approach by which we will estimate the rate of return, and comprises the return on debt and the return on equity, as well as the value of imputation credits. We publish a new Instrument every 4 years that will bind all regulatory determinations in the subsequent 4 years.

This is the fifth topic in a series of working papers that we will produce as part of our pathway to the 2022 Rate of Return instrument. The outcomes from these working papers will feed in to the active phase of our 2022 Rate of Return instrument review.