Overview

Indicative timetable

Indicative dates for key milestones in the decision making process
Milestone Date*
Consultation Paper published 19 October 2018
VCR Consultative Committee established October 2018
Submissions due on Consultation Paper 16 November 2018
VCR Consultative Committee meeting #1 28 November 2018
Public forum - Sydney 5 December 2018
Public forum - Melbourne 6 December 2018
Presentation to Customer Consultative Group (CCG) 11 December 2018
Further stakeholder submissions in response to consultation paper and key issues raised at public forum and CCG 20 December 2018
All day workshop with MEI, KPMG/Insync on VCR methodology 17 January 2019
VCR Consultative Committee meeting #2 – VCR methodology and survey design 7 February 2019
VCR HILP sub-Committee meeting #1 – how to determine HILP VCR 14 March 2019
Publish Consultation update paper on methodology 18 April 2019
Commence Pilot End April to 24 May 2019
Submissions to Consultation update 24 May 2019
Insync report on pilot survey results June 2019
VCR Consultative Committee meeting #3 to discuss draft pilot survey results 13 June 2019
VCR Consultative Committee meeting #4 further discussion of pilot survey results 25 July 2019
VCR Consultative Committee meeting #5 discussion of draft decision methodology 29 August 2019
Conduct main survey and analyse results September/October 2019
Draft decision methodology 18 September 2019
Insync main survey draft report End October 2019
Submissions to draft decision  18 October 2019
Publish Final Decision Methodology (including HILP) November 2019

*Please note this timeline is subject to change.

Consultation paper

On 19 October 2018 the AER released its consultation paper on VCR. Our consultation paper is designed to canvass stakeholder views on a number of matters including:

  • different methodologies to determine VCR values
  • current and future uses of VCR
  • how stakeholders currently use VCR
  • how we should approach trade-offs between cost, complexity and accuracy.

AEMC - Fact sheet: What is reliability? - March 2017

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Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC)
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Submissions

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Submissions on our consultation paper closed on 20 December 2018.

AEMO - Submission to AER Values of Customer Reliability Consultation Paper - November 2018

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Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)
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CitiPower, Powercor, United Energy - Submission to AER Values of Customer Reliability Consultation Paper - November 2018

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Powercor Australia
United Energy Distribution
CitiPower
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Energy Queensland - Submission to AER Values of Customer Reliability Consultation Paper - November 2018

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Energy Queensland Limited (EQL)
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EUAA - Submission to AER Values of Reliability Consultation Paper - November 2018

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Energy Users Association of Australia (EUAA)
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IPART - Submission to AER Values of Customer Reliability Consultation Paper - November 2018

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Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART)
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Meridian Powershop - Submission to AER Values of Customer Reliability Consultation Paper - November 2018

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Meridian Energy Australia
Powershop Australia Pty Ltd
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MEU - Submission to AER Values of Customer Reliability Consultation Paper - November 2018

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Major Energy Users Inc (MEU)
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Stakeholder forum

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We held public forums in Sydney and Melbourne to discuss our consultation paper.

AEMO - AER Values of Customer Reliability - Public forum presentation - December 2018

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Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)
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EUAA - AER Values of Customer Reliability - Public forum presentation - 5 & 6 December 2018

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Energy Users Association of Australia (EUAA)
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ENA - AER Values of Customer Reliability - Public forum presentation - 5 & 6 December 2018

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Energy Networks Australia (ENA)
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ECA - AER Values of Customer Reliability - Public forum presentation - 5 December 2018

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Energy Consumers Australia (ECA)
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ECA - AER Values of Customer Reliability - Public forum presentation - 6 December 2018

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Energy Consumers Australia (ECA)
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Submissions - Further consultation

Following our public forums in Sydney and Melbourne we extended the submission period on our consultation paper.

Consultation paper - Update

On 18 April 2019 we released our Consultation Update paper on VCR, which informs stakeholders of our progress and thinking to date. The Consultation update paper provides a summary of the submissions we received in response to our Consultation Paper and Public Forums. It also sets out our initial positions on existing approaches to measuring VCRs, our proposed methodology, and survey design for estimation of standard outages.

Submissions - Invitation for views and feedback

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Given the Consultation Update paper is not a formal consultation document we did not request formal responses. However, we welcomed any views and feedback interested parties wished to provide.