Guidelines, schemes, models and reviews

The DMO is a maximum price that retailers can charge electricity customers on default contracts known as standing offer contracts.

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 Default Market Offer is a price safety net for consumers and acts as a reference price to compare energy deals.

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.

Better bills helps build consumer trust and participation in the energy market by helping them make more confident decisions.

On 18 March 2021, the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) made a final rule requiring us to publish a Better bills guideline (the Guideline) by 1 April 2

The DMO is a maximum price that retailers can charge electricity customers on default contracts known as standing offer contracts.

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.

The DMO is a maximum price that retailers can charge electricity customers on default contracts known as standing offer contracts.