The AER has today released its third annual Export services network performance report.
Our report, Facilitating CER in Australia’s two-way energy system: Export services network performance report, focuses on how the 14 electricity distributors we regulate are facilitating and optimising some of the new and emerging Distributed Energy Resources (DER) and Consumer Energy Resources (CER) technology into their distribution networks.
This report focuses on the facilitation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, vehicle to grid services and community-scale batteries. The report also provides the recent industry activity and developments in relation to policy and planning for the facilitation of CER.
This report details the current state of play of these new technologies as reported by electricity distribution networks, and the process to install, connect and operate the new technologies on their distribution networks. This report also provides the electricity distribution networks’ visibility of the new DER/CER technologies and their current methods and future plans to facilitate the new technologies, whilst managing network constraints and other system limitations.
This year’s report does not include the export services network performance data provided in the 2023 and 2024 reports. This is due to the export services network data now being reported by DNSPs through Annual Information Orders, which is not available in time for the publication of the 2025 report.
We plan to report this data in the first half of 2026, when we integrate our export services reporting in the 2026 Electricity and gas network report.