The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) today released an issues paper on reporting triggers for significant price variations in the gas Short Term Trading Market (STTM).
Under Rule 498 of the National Gas Rules, the AER is required to develop and publish guidelines as to what constitutes a significant price variation for reporting purposes.
Invitation for submissions
Interested parties are invited to make written submissions to the AER in response to the Issues paper by close of business Friday 30 November 2012. Submissions will be considered in the development of the reporting guidelines. Submissions should be addressed by email to Jeremy [dot] Llewellyn
aer [dot] gov [dot] au (Jeremy[dot]Llewellyn[at]aer[dot]gov[dot]au).
The AER prefers that all submissions be sent in an electronic format in Microsoft Word or other text readable document form and publicly available, to facilitate an informed, transparent and robust consultation process. Accordingly, submissions will be treated as public documents and posted on the AER's website, except and unless prior arrangements are made with the AER to treat the submission, or portions of it, as confidential. Parties wishing to submit confidential information are requested to:
- clearly identify the information that is the subject of the confidentiality claim; and
- provide a non-confidential version of the submission