The AER released an issues paper on shared assets as part of its Better Regulation program. We invite interested parties to make written submissions by 17 May 2013. Subject to stakeholder interest, we may hold a workshop on this issues paper in April or early May.
A shared asset is any electricity supply asset providing both standard regulated electricity supply services and unregulated services. The shared asset guideline will set out the AER’s approach to reducing the regulatory value of such assets to reflect costs recovered through charging for unregulated services. The revised National Electricity Rules recognise that, without shared asset cost reductions, businesses may recover regulated asset costs more than once.
Invitation for submissions
We invite interested parties to make written submissions to the AER by the close of business, 17 May 2013. Submissions should be sent electronically to costallocations
aer [dot] gov [dot] au (costallocations[at]aer[dot]gov[dot]au).
Alternatively, you may send submissions to:
Mr Chris PattasGeneral Manager – Network Operations and Development
Australian Energy Regulator
GPO Box 520
Melbourne VIC 3001
The AER prefers that all submissions be publicly available and sent in an electronic format in Microsoft Word or other text readable document form, to facilitate an informed, transparent and robust consultation process. Accordingly, we will treat submissions as public documents and post them on the AER's website, unless you make prior arrangements with the AER to treat the submission, or portions of it, as confidential. We request that those wishing to submit confidential information:
- clearly identify the information that is the subject of the confidentiality claim; and
- provide a non-confidential version of the submission.
Shared assets guideline stakeholder forum
The AER may host a stakeholder forum on the shared asset guidelines in April/May 2013, subject to stakeholder interest. Further details of the forum will be notified in due course to those that have registered an interest in this guideline. Those wishing to register are encouraged to do so by sending their details to costallocationsaer [dot] gov [dot] au (costallocations[at]aer[dot]gov[dot]au).
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You can also subscribe to email alerts for our work in this area by selecting ‘Guideline’ at http://www.aer.gov.au/user/register.