Updating the Retail and Network and Exemption Guidelines - Consultation Paper 2021

The AER has published a consultation paper in relation to a review of the AER (Retail) Exempt Selling Guideline (the retail exemption guideline) and the Electricity Network Service Provider – Registration Exemption Guideline (the network exemption guideline).

The consultation paper seeks stakeholder feedback on:

• Improving the clarity and readability of exemption requirements.
• Streamlining the network exemption guideline and removing redundancies.
• Clarifying concepts such as the issue of the ownership, control, and operation of embedded networks in the network exemption guideline.
• Introducing standardised statements in both guidelines where information requirements need to be met, e.g. for exemption applications that require applicants to obtain explicit informed consent to network conversion proposals.
• Improving consistency between the two guidelines.