Today we published our draft network resilience guidelines and are seeking stakeholder views to develop the final guidelines. The guidelines set out how distribution network resilience expenditure is assessed under the National Electricity Rules, including the factors the AER will have regard to when assessing resilience proposals. As part of the guideline, we have developed principles and provided case studies and examples of resilience expenditure to assist with the development of resilience proposals.
View our draft network resilience guidelines here
On 8 May 2025, the AEMC made a final rule to provide regulatory clarity around the assessment of electricity distribution network resilience expenditure. As part of this, the AER is required to develop and publish formal network resilience guidelines by 1 December 2026.
The release of the draft guidelines follows the completion of our first round on consultation on the matters outlined in our consultation paper. Information on how we considered the feedback and issues raised by stakeholders can be found in the explanatory note accompanying the draft guidelines.
