The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) today released its Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) draft determination, in relation to CitiPower, Jemena, Powercor, SP AusNet and United Energy Distribution's AMI budgets 2009–11 and charges for 2010–11, for consideration and comment by interested parties.
The draft determination establishes the basis for the metering charges payable by Victorian consumers using less than 160MWh of electricity per annum for 2010 and 2011. The DNSPs’ budgets and charges applications, the AER’s draft determination and consultant’s report are available on the AER's website.
Submissions on the draft determination may be sent electronically to aerenquiry
aer [dot] gov [dot] au (aerenquiry[at]aer[dot]gov[dot]au) by close of business 11 September 2009. Alternatively, submissions can be mailed to:
General Manager- Network Regulation South
Australian Energy Regulator
GPO Box 520
Melbourne VIC 3001
The AER prefers that all submissions be publicly available to facilitate an informed and transparent consultative process. Submissions will be treated as public documents unless otherwise requested. Parties wishing to submit confidential information are requested to:
- clearly identify the information that is the subject of the confidentiality claim; and
- provide a non-confidential version of the submission.
All non-confidential submissions will be placed on the AER's website.
Public forum on the determination
The AER is holding a public forum on the draft determination.
Forum details are as follows:
Date:
21 August 2009
Time:
2:00 to 4:00pm
Venue:
AER’s offices
Level 35, 360 Elizabeth Street
Melbourne
RSVP by email to maria [dot] djopaaer [dot] gov [dot] au (maria[dot]djopa[at]aer[dot]gov[dot]au) by 7 August with the names of attendees and respective organisation.