The AER released its 2016 annual benchmarking report for distribution and transmission network service providers in November 2016. These benchmarking reports consider the performance of electricity distribution and transmission networks in the ten years up to and including 2015.
The benchmarking calculations and dataset, and submissions by the network services providers, can be found Annual Benchmarking Report 2016.
Please note: due to the identification of an error during the preparation of the 2020 Annual Benchmarking Report, the productivity index number results in annual benchmarking reports preceding the 2020 Report are not accurate. This error does not impact the econometric opex cost function models or the partial performance indicators. Please see the 2020 Annual Benchmarking Report for corrected results and for more information on the error which relates to the non-reliability output weights.