Guidelines, schemes, models and reviews

The Default Market Offer is a price safety net for consumers and acts as a reference price to compare energy deals.

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).

Learn how the National Electricity Rules' Post-Tax Revenue Model can be amended for non-contestable revenue determinations within the NSW infrastructure roadmap.

Our guideline explains the Transmission Efficiency Test and how we determine revenue for network operators authorised to carry out non-contestable projects.

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.

The Ring-fencing guideline (electricity transmission) 2023 ensures the Guideline remains fit for purpose in a changing regulatory landscape and electricity market.

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.