Guidelines, schemes, models and reviews

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

The AER's final guidance note on how we will address material impacts on the benchmarking results of differences in electricity DNSP's capitalisation process

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

On 1 March 2023, the AER published its Ring-fencing guideline (electricity transmission) (Version 4) following a substantive review of the transmission ring-fencing arrangements.

Better bills helps build consumer trust and participation in the energy market by helping them make more confident decisions.

A review into the annual pricing process for electricity DNSPs to seek consistency, efficiencies, and better stakeholder interaction.

Connection charge guidelines

Our strategy seeks to tackle the enduring issues that prevent consumers experiencing vulnerability from getting what they need from Australia’s energy system.

On 29 July 2022, the NSW Office of Energy and Climate Change (OECC) lodged an application for the AER to consider whether the scheme established under section 58(6) of the Electricity Infrastructure Investment Act 2020 (NSW) and clause 37 of the Electricity Infrastructure Investment Regulation 2021 is a jurisdictional scheme.

Our guideline explains the Transmission Efficiency Test and how we determine revenue for network operators selected for projects through a competitive process.