Submission to the Essential Services Commission's Getting to Fair: Advancing Equity Strategy Consultation Paper

We support the Essential Services Commission’s ambition to address inequity at a systems level to improve outcomes for Victorian energy consumers, particularly those experiencing vulnerability or hardship.

We particularly welcome the Commission’s adoption of the term 'energy justice', as well as its commitment to:

• Promoting just outcomes for consumers through principles-based, outcomes-focused regulation
• Explicitly aligning social and environmental equity with efficiency, a positive move from the narrow interpretation of efficiency set out in the National Electricity and Gas Objectives
• Adjusting reporting and measurement cadence to better respond to emerging needs

Read our submission for more information.