EUAA Submission: AEMC National Gas Amendment (ECGS Reliability Standard & Associated Settings) Rule – Directions Paper
Emily Wood | September 25, 2025
‘… We have contemplated the current Directions Paper alongside the other Reliability and Supply Adequacy (RSA) stage 2 rule changes; Projected Assessment of System Adequacy, Notice of Closure and Supplier of Last Resort.
We agree that the NGR’s current deterministic “threat notice” mechanism for advising the market and consumers of reliability issues in the ECGS is inefficient and counterproductive. This is due to the inability of the market and consumers to understand the level and probability of the threat to reliability and therefore actions that may be taken to avoid that threat causing inefficient responses from AEMO and the market.
The inefficiency of the current threat notice rules was highlighted by AEMO’s response in June 2024 to a reliability issue; whereby AEMO issued a threat notice and advised our members in writing and verbally that they may have their gas supply interrupted rather than enforcing reliability from the market. As you can imagine, this caused …’
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