Submission: AER Review of the Value of Customer Reliability (Supplementary Submission)
Submission: AER Review of the Value of Customer Reliability (Supplementary Submission)
Our members are highly exposed to movements in both gas and electricity prices and have been under increasing stress due to escalating energy costs. These increased costs are either absorbed by the business, making it more difficult to maintain existing levels of employment or passed through to consumers in the form of increases in the […]
EUAA Submission: AEMC RERT Enhancement
Our members are very concerned about both the costs of the Reliability and Emergency Reserve Trader (RERT) and the lack of transparency around how these costs are incurred and then recovered. AEMO is seeking a major change in the current arrangements to de-link the RERT procurement trigger and volume from the widely supported reliability standard. […]
EUAA Submission: Electricity Price Monitoring and Response Legislative Framework
The EUAA have reviewed the Electricity price monitoring and response legislative framework consultation paper (consultation paper) and are in general agreement with the overall intent and proposed approach. The EUAA are strong supporters of increased transparency of energy markets and the strengthening of consumer protections. Energy users often find energy markets to be complex and […]
EUAA Submission: Underwriting New Generation Investment
In the absence of national, bipartisan energy policy that provides investors and energy users with sufficient comfort to enter into long-term agreements it may be necessary for a level of intervention as outlined in Recommendation 4 of the ACCC Retail Electricity Pricing Inquiry. Under the circumstances and in the absence of short to medium term […]
EUAA Submission: Project Marinus Project Specification Consultation Report
Project Marinus is the TasNetworks proposal to build a second interconnector between Tasmania and Victoria. The PSCR is just the first stage of a longer process and begins to more formally scope out the project and gather initial feedback from stakeholders. We commend TasNetworks on this early stakeholder engagement. The EUAA are yet to adopt […]
EUAA Submission: Response to OTC Transparency in the NEM
See attached Reponse to Over the Counter Transparency in the NEM submission.
EUAA Submission: Market Making Requirements in the NEM
The debate around the competitiveness of the NEM has continued for many years. Consumers claim that generators have been “manipulating” the market and generators respond that they are “operating within the rules”. Change have been introduced eg “good faith bidding” rules in 2015 that were designed to address the perceived market manipulation. Consumers argue that […]
EUAA Submission: SA Energy Transformation – Riverlink RIT-T
We have reviewed the Project Assessment Draft Report (PADR) and have consulted with other end user advocates who have been most useful in the preparation of this submission. We have also spoken to a number of our South Australian and New South Wales members, many of whom have not been consulted directly by either Electranet […]
EUAA Submission: Supplementary Submission RERT Enhancement
In our submission on this matter in late July, the EUAA highlighted how our members had recently received invoices for RERT, sometimes totalling hundreds and thousands of dollars, which were unexpected and not budgeted for. In many cases there was little explanation for this cost from their retailer. Members efforts to get detailed explanations of […]
EUAA Submission: AER Issues Paper – NSW Electricity Distribution Determinations
Our members are highly exposed to movements in both gas and electricity prices and have been under increasing stress due to escalating energy costs. Many of our members have operations in NSW, including some with operations across all three DNSPs and have borne large rises in network charges over the last decade. There have been […]
EUAA Submission: Enhancement of the RERT Mechanism
The current uncertain state of the NEM and the tightening supply/demand balance supports the need for AEMO to have an efficient and low cost RERT type mechanism as part of its operational levers to meet the reliability standard. The EUAA also recognise the important potential role of the RERT in AEMO’s procurer of last resort […]
EUAA Submission: NEG Draft Detailed Design Consultation Paper
We have reviewed the Emissions Guarantee elements of the NEG and are in general agreement with the approach adopted by the ESB. The introduction of the Emissions Registry (the registry) is a welcome step towards greater coordination of the various state and federal emissions reduction activities. We encourage the ESB to consider the ability of […]