EUAA Submission: For Consultation – Draft Interim Contracts and Firmness Guidelines
Emily Wood | June 19, 2019
We welcome this opportunity to make a submission to the Draft interim Contracts and Firmness Guidelines (the Guidelines) and we are supportive of the Retailer Reliability Obligation (RRO) as a market-based solution to ensuring system reliability and achievement of the existing reliability standard.
This submission makes some general observations on the issues raised. While supporting the overall objectives of the RRO, it has the potential to add significant costs of consumers electricity bills. Our emphasis in all our submissions on the various Guidelines has been on the development of guidelines that most efficiently achieve the RRO objectives and hence minimize the costs to be borne by consumers…
For full submission, please see attachment.