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.

The Guideline assists TNSPs to better understand how they can apply for AER review of significant draft SSNS contracts.

On 21 November 2024, we completed a review of the Cost Benefit Analysis guidelines and Regulatory Investment Test application guidelines and instruments.

The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has released our final financeability guideline.

The AER has updated the contribution determination guideline to introduce some minor changes to the process for NSW scheme entities to submit input data.

The AER has reviewed the revenue determination guideline for non-contestable infrastructure projects to improve the efficiency of the process.

The Networks Information Requirements Review is about driving improvements in the quality of the information about regulated networks that we use and share.

A review into the annual pricing process for electricity DNSPs to seek consistency, efficiencies, and better stakeholder interaction.

Our strategy seeks to tackle the enduring issues that prevent consumers experiencing vulnerability from getting what they need from Australia’s energy system.

On 29 July 2022, the NSW Office of Energy and Climate Change (OECC) lodged an application for the AER to consider whether the scheme established under section 58(6) of the Electricity Infrastructure Investment Act 2020 (NSW) and clause 37 of the Electricity Infrastructure Investment Regulation 2021 is a jurisdictional scheme.