The AER has received proposals from the five Victorian electricity distributors for charges to apply to smart meters in 2015. These charges are based on additional expenditures the business incurred that exceeded their previously set regulatory allowance. Additionally, four of the companies (Citipower, Jemena, Powercor and United Energy) have proposed to charge customers a manual meter, as per a State government order in council.
Invitation for submissions
We are seeking submissions on the manual meter fee until 30 September 2014. Submissions should be sent electronically to AMIcharges2015
aer [dot] gov [dot] au (AMIcharges2015[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, unless prior arrangements are made with the AER to treat the submission, or portions of it, as confidential. Those 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.