Guidelines, schemes, models and reviews

AER updated its Industry Practice Application Note – Asset Replacement Planning to accommodate the amended National Energy Objectives.

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

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 AER has reviewed and refined its incentive schemes and guidelines that apply to regulated electricity and gas networks.

The Ring-fencing guideline (electricity transmission) 2023 ensures the Guideline remains fit for purpose in a changing regulatory landscape and electricity mark

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.

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 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 AER governs who can on-sell energy without becoming an authorised retailer, and the conditions exempt sellers have to comply with, via its Retail Exempt Selling Guideline.

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