Guidelines, schemes, models and reviews

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

We've conducted a form of regulation review of the South West Queensland Pipeline, which is owned and operated by APA Group.

On 21 November 2024, we completed a review of the Cost Benefit Analysis guidelines and Regulatory Investment Test application guidelines and instruments.

The AER has updated the contribution determination guideline to introduce some minor changes to the process for NSW scheme entities to submit input data.

The AER has reviewed the revenue determination guideline for non-contestable infrastructure projects to improve the efficiency of the process.

The Annual Compliance Order (ACO) is the mechanism with which the AER has previously monitored the compliance of service providers with these obligations. The new ACO replaces the previous ACO, which was in place from 2008 to 2022.

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

This guideline sets out the requirements for pipeline operators and how the AER will make decisions in relation to gas ring-fencing applications.