Guidelines, schemes, models and reviews

The AER Compliance Procedures and Guidelines provide guidance and information to service providers about their legislative and reporting requirements.

Due to reforms, the AER is now responsible for determining the regulatory treatment of gas pipelines. The AER published a final Guide on 12 September 2023.

The Networks Information Requirements Review is about driving improvements in the quality of the information about regulated networks that we use and share.

The gas pipeline information disclosure guidelines, price reporting guidelines and accompanying templates are required under the new Part 10 & 18A of the NGR.

The Export service incentive scheme allows DNSPs to propose bespoke incentives related to export services based on their network circumstances, customer preferences and evidence-based performance data.

The Retailer Reliability Obligation (RRO) is designed to support reliability in the National Electricity Market (NEM).

The AER has been consulting on its approach to incentivising and measuring export service performance.

The Rate of Return Instrument (the Instrument) sets out the approach by which we will estimate the rate of return, and comprises the return on debt and the return on equity, as well as the value of imputation credits. We publish a new Instrument every 4 years that will bind all regulatory determinations in the subsequent 4 years.

The AER’s statement of approach guides our comprehensive long-term monitoring and reporting on wholesale electricity markets.

The AER undertook a review on the Value of Network Resilience to address electricity supply outages lasting longer than 12 hours (prolonged outages).

The AER has developed guidance intended to help System Strength Service Providers navigate the Efficient management of system strength on the power system rule.

VCR play an important role in the identifying the right level of reliability investment, ensuring customers pay no more than necessary for reliable energy.