Guidelines, schemes, models and reviews

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

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

The Export service incentive scheme allows DNSPs to propose bespoke incentives related to export services based on their network circumstances, customer preferences and evidence-based performance data.

The AER has been consulting on its approach to incentivising and measuring export service performance.

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.

The AER undertook a review on the Value of Network Resilience to address electricity supply outages lasting longer than 12 hours (prolonged outages).

VCR play an important role in the identifying the right level of reliability investment, ensuring customers pay no more than necessary for reliable energy.