EUAA Submission: The Pricing Review – Discussion Paper
Emily Wood | July 10, 2025
The Pricing Review is looking at future network and retail pricing and products to maximise consumers interaction with the NEM through Customer Energy Resources (CER). While the focus is on residential and small to medium business, we can see the day when this is extended to all consumers. There is also a risk of cross subsidies from large consumers to small consumers.
Summary of our submission:
‘…The EUAA supports proposed rule changes where evidence points to an issue and the proposed rule change clearly leads to improved efficiency of markets and/or improved system security and where the costs and risks are appropriately allocated to those best able to manage them. The EUAA does not support approaches that lack evidence or require consumers to perform activities or take risks that are best managed by others.
We also often describe different user classes in the NEM such as residential, small to medium enterprise or C&I, as if they are operating in separate markets. They are not. They are all part of the same NEM ecosystem where the actions taken to change behaviour of one customer class (i.e. supporting Consumer Energy Resources (CER) such as solar PV or electric vehicles) can have serious consequences for other customer classes or market participants.
We understand the scope of The Pricing Review covers retail and distribution charges, tariffs and products for residential and small to medium enterprise. While this is a good starting point, we can envisage a future where C&I consumers are also offered products similar to the ones being discussed in The Pricing Review, i.e. products that are tailored to the commercial or industrial consumers preferences and energy literacy….’
Please download attached document to read our full submission.
