Discounting guidelines - draft decision and draft guidelines (October 2001)

On 1 July 2005 the AER assumed the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) responsibilities for the regulation of transmission revenues in the National Electricity Market. On 21 September 2001 the ACCC released its determination regarding the network pricing and market network service provider code changes. That determination includes provisions for network users to negotiate discounts on their transmission use of system charges (TUoS), and sets out the circumstances under which such discounts can be recovered from other network users. Specifically, the determination states that TNSPs may recover discounts of the TUoS general charges and common service charges where the discounts meet the guidelines to be promulgated by the ACCC.