Reliable and accurate data allows decision-makers and advocates to identify emerging issues, draft solutions and evaluate their impacts

Our submission sees merit in a well-designed capacity mechanism but the detail of the design process and the design itself will decide whether such a mechanism works to consumers’ overall benefit. Australians expect and deserve a reliable energy system but it cannot be at the expense of having an affordable one.

Transmission access reform is vital to ensuring the market is designed appropriately.

Energy Consumers Australia supports the Congestion Market Mechanism (CMM) and Connection Zones with Connection Fees options in the Consultation Paper because they will deliver the benefits that effective transmission access reform offers.

Read our submission to the Economics Legislation Committee into the Treasury Laws Amendment (Support for Small Business).

We believe any actions that impose external controls over technologies that empower consumers in how they use or generate energy require social licence.

The Code introduces the Default Market Offer (DMO) which places a price cap on standing offers in DMO jurisdictions and acts as a Reference Price for comparing certain electricity prices.

Read our submission to DISR on the Future Gas Strategy.

For such non-network solutions to compete fairly with traditional network approaches requires that third-party providers have access to the same data and information that network companies have on voltage within the distribution system.