The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has offered positions on its Customer Consultative Group (CCG) to ten organisations for a two year period ending in late 2013.
The organisations are the Australian Council of Social Services, the Australian Industry Group, Consumer Action Law Centre, Consumer Utilities Advocacy Centre, the Council on the Ageing (National), Public Interest Advocacy Centre, the Queensland Council of Social Services, the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, the Tasmanian Council of Social Services and UnitingCare Wesley Adelaide.
CCG membership will provide organisations with the opportunity to inform the AER about issues that impact on the groups they represent. It will also provide a forum in which organisations can meet with other consumer representatives on key energy consumer issues.
It is anticipated that the group’s next meeting will be held in February 2012 and that its main focus will be retail and non-price distribution regulatory issues.