The AER has today published our AER price-responsive reporting guideline. The guideline follows new AER monitoring and reporting functions that were introduced as a result of the December 2024 Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) rule change intended to provide transparency on the impacts of unscheduled price-responsive resources on efficient market outcomes.
Unscheduled price-responsive resources refer to a wide range of energy resources and load that are unscheduled but can and/or do respond to the market price. These include:
- household consumer energy resources (CER)
- home energy management systems that control traditional assets
- industrial assets with components of controllable demand
- small unscheduled generation and storage units.
In preparation for this additional function, we have published the AER price-responsive reporting guideline to set out how we will meet our new monitoring and reporting obligations, including the publication of an annual report. This report will present analysis on the impact of unscheduled price responsive resources on forecast deviations and consequential impacts on the efficiency of the market. Reporting will provide insights on emerging trends as the scale of unscheduled price-responsive resources increases in the future.
Our annual report on the impact of unscheduled price-responsive resources will be published by 31 December each year and cover the previous financial year. The first report will be published in 2026.