We are undertaking a consultative process for amending the Capital Expenditure Incentive Guidelines, to take into account the Australian Energy Market Commission’s final rule for Managing ISP project uncertainty through targeted ex post reviews. Giving effect to this we must update our Guidelines to enable us to carry out separate targeted ex post review for Integrated System Plan (ISP) projects and non-ISP projects.
In addition, this review also considers additional matters that has been raised by stakeholders since our 2023 review of incentive schemes for regulated networks. We consider this is an appropriate time to raise these issues as these were not the subject of the 2023 Incentives Review
The AEMC’s targeted ex post reviews rule change, except for the transitional provisions, will commence on 4 September 2025. In preparation for this, we are required to amend our Guidelines by 4 September 2025.
Invitation for submissions
On 16 May 2025 we published our draft amendments to the Capital Expenditure Incentive Guidelines. Interested stakeholders are invited to send submissions in response to our proposed amendments by 27 June 2025. Submissions or enquiries about the draft Guidelines should be sent to aerinquiry
aer [dot] gov [dot] au (aerinquiry[at]aer[dot]gov[dot]au). Alternative contact methods are available and are described in the accompanying explanatory statement.