As part of the Victorian Government's mandated rollout of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) in Victoria, the Order in Council made under Sections 15A and 46D of the Electricity Industry Act 2000, 28 August 2007 and as amended by the Order in Council No S 314, 25 November 2008, the five electricity distributors were required to provide the AER with their initial AMI budget period budget application covering the period 2009-11 by Friday 27 February 2009. The applications are available on the AER's website.
Because certain information provided by the distributors to the AER is commercial in confidence, sensitive information has been removed.
Further, pursuant to their initial AMI budget period budget application, distributors will submit to the AER their initial charges application for 2010-11 by 1 June 2009.
The AER will provide a draft decision on the initial budget and charges applications by an indicative date of 31 July 2009, with a final decision by 31 October 2009.