AER - Powercor distribution determination - 2017 return on debt update - PTRM - September 2016

In line with our final decision on Powercor’s electricity distribution network, we have updated Powercor’s return on debt for 2017 under NER cl  6.5.2(l).

As a result of this update, the return on debt for 2017 is 5.41 per cent. This results in an X-factor for 2017 of 4.68 per cent. Holding other things constant, a positive X-factor implies a real revenue decrease and a negative X-factor implies a real revenue increase.

The revised PTRM shows the updated X-factor.