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

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

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

Due to reforms, the AER is now responsible for determining the regulatory treatment of gas pipelines. The AER published a final Guide on 12 September 2023.

AER updated its Retailer Authorisation Guideline 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 Pipeline Access Dispute Guide is intended to provide guidance about the access dispute resolution process under the NGL and NGR.

The gas pipeline information disclosure guidelines, price reporting guidelines and accompanying templates are required under the new Part 10 & 18A of the NGR.

On 28 September 2023, the AER published guidance on the amended national energy objectives. This guidance is supported by an explanatory statement.

The Retailer Reliability Obligation (RRO) is designed to support reliability in the National Electricity Market (NEM).

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.