On 27 November 2014, the AER released its draft decision on ActewAGL's distribution determination for the 2015–19 regulatory control period.
We also released a Fact Sheet on our review of ActewAGL's proposal, to accompany and summarise our draft decision. The purpose of this Fact Sheet is to make our decision accessible to a wide ranging consumer audience.
The AER commissioned a report from Economic Insights on economic benchmarking of operating expenditure, Deloitte Access Economics on labour cost escalation, and Professor John Handley on the value of imputation credits.
The AER must publish certain models with its draft decision for ActewAGL.
On 27 November 2014, the AER published its draft decision for ActewAGL's distribution determination for the 2015-19 regulatory control period.
We held a pre-determination conference on 9 December 2014 in Canberra to explain first hand to stakeholders our draft decision and what it means. The presentations made in this conference are available below.
On 16 September 2014 officers from the AER and ActewAGL met and discussed questions that the AER had in relation to operating expenditure (opex) and capital expenditure (capex). This document from ActewAGL responds directly to questions raised by the AER and follow-up queries.