Overview

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Draft decision
Revised proposal
Final decision
Update

Draft decision

On 6 July 2017, we released our draft decision on APA's access arrangement for the 2018-22 access arrangement period.

We also released a Fact Sheet on our review of APA's access arrangement proposal to accompany and summarise our draft decision. The purpose of this Fact Sheet is to make our decision accessible to a wide ranging consumer audience.

AER - Overview - July 2017 View details

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AER - Draft decision fact sheet - July 2017 View details

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AER - Rate of return fact sheet - July 2017 View details

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AER - Attachment 1 - Services covered by the access arrangement - July 2017 View details

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AER - Attachment 2 - Capital base - July 2017 View details

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AER - Attachment 3 - Rate of return - July 2017 View details

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AER - Attachment 4 - Value of imputation credits - July 2017 View details

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AER - Attachment 5 - Regulatory depreciation - July 2017 View details

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AER - Attachment 6 - Capital expenditure - July 2017 View details

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AER - Attachment 7 - Operating expenditure - July 2017 View details

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AER - Attachment 8 - Corporate income tax - July 2017 View details

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AER - Attachment 9 - Opex incentive mechanism - July 2017 View details

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AER - Attachment 10 - Reference tariff setting - July 2017 View details

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AER - Attachment 11 - Reference tariff variation mechanism - July 2017 View details

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AER - Attachment 12 - Non tariff components - July 2017 View details

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AER - Attachment 13 - Demand - July 2017 View details

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Models

The AER must publish certain models with its draft decision for APA.

AER - Draft Decision Post Tax Revenue Model (PTRM) - July 2017
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AER - Draft Decision Roll Forward Model (RFM) - July 2017
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AER - Draft Decision Opex Model - July 2017
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AER - Draft Decision Efficiency Carry-over Mechanism (ECM) Model - July 2017
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AER - Draft Decision Capex Model - July 2017
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Consultant reports

The AER commissioned a number of reports that it took into account when making its draft decision.

ACIL Allen - Report to the AER: Review of Demand Forecasts for APA VTS - 16 June 2017
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Deloitte Access Economics - Labour Price Forecasts - 6 February 2017
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Dr Martin Lally - Review of Frontier Report on Gamma - 13 June 2017
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Partington & Satchell - Report to the AER: Discussion of Submissions on the Cost of Equity - 8 June 2017
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Sleeman Consulting - Report to the AER: Western Outer Ring Main Project Capex Related Considerations - 31 May 2017
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Sleeman Consulting - Report to the AER: Review of Forecast Capex for Selected Projects - 27 April 2017
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Submissions

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We invited submissions on our draft decision and the revised proposal by 15 September 2017. Submissions are available under the revised proposal milestone.