FarrierSwier - Research Report - Incentivising well-justified regulatory proposals that reflect consumer preferences - insights from other jurisdictions

To help inform the development of the Handbook, we commissioned Farrierswier to prepare a report exploring:

• how other regulators have sought to incentivise proposals that reflect consumer preferences and are ‘capable of acceptance’, and
• whether these approaches could be applied by the AER within the existing regulatory framework

Farrierswier’s report is published below. We consider it provides useful background and insights on how regulators have sought to achieve similar aims that we are seeking to achieve with the Handbook, and how these approaches have been shaped by regulatory frameworks in which they operate.

At the time Farrierswier prepared the report, the Handbook was then still known under the working title Statement of Expectations for Networks (SOEN).