EUAA Submission: National Electricity Amendment ERC0335
Emily Wood | May 25, 2022
‘…It is surprising given the AEMC’s role to further the National Electricity Objective, that it seems to regard this rule change as a simple administrative process where the outcome is obvious. The Commission sees it as non-controversial and hence can easily be dealt with in an expedited process (p.3):
“The rule change does not impact the market and market participants as the proposal only relates to improving the processes for TNSPs to pass on to their customers AEMO’s fees that are allocated to TNSPs. As set out in section 3.1, under current arrangements these fees should ultimately be passed on to consumers through existing mechanisms, but these mechanisms may be less administratively efficient.”
The existing pass through mechanisms are seen as ‘…less administratively efficient’ so the commission is happy to provide a process that is more efficient. Or at least more efficient to the rule change proponents.
EUAA believes the matter is far from an administrative issue. To treat it that way ignores fundamental issues around incentive based network regulation…’
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