Guidelines, schemes, models and reviews

Connection charge guidelines

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

The Contribution determination guideline (the Guideline) addresses cost recovery under the NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap.

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.

Our guideline explains the Transmission Efficiency Test and how we determine revenue for network operators selected for projects through a competitive process.

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 2022. The purpose of the Guideline is to provide guidance to retailers on preparing and issuing bills that make it easy for residential and small customers to understand billing information.

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.