The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has today released its Draft Shared Asset guidelines (Guidelines). Accompanying these guidelines we have also published an explanatory statement and a factsheet. In the Guidelines we propose how electricity consumers will benefit from the other services network businesses may provide using the electricity assets consumers pay for.
These Guidelines are the second in our series of guidelines being prepared as part of the AER’s Better Regulation reform program. As part of this program we are consulting on seven new guidelines that outline our revised approach to determining prices and revenue for energy networks.
Details on how to make submissions are on our shared assets webpage. All submissions and comments must be made by close of business, 13 September 2013.