{"id":88052,"date":"2024-11-12T04:33:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T19:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=88052"},"modified":"2024-11-12T04:33:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T19:03:43","slug":"aemc-electricity-review-mb3049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/aemc-electricity-review-mb3049\/","title":{"rendered":"AEMC’s Electricity Pricing Review: Next Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Australian<\/p>\n

The Australian Energy Market Commission’s efforts in ensuring electricity pricing frameworks are more in line with how Australians want to utilise and interact with the energy system are going to be a long haul – but another step has been taken.<\/p>\n

Millions of Australian households have installed solar panels<\/a> and increasing numbers are acquiring home batteries<\/a>, electric vehicles and various appliances and management systems as the nation moves to electrification. Added to these Consumer Energy Resources (CER) are other Distributed Energy Resources (DER) such as neighbourhood batteries and Virtual Power Plants<\/a> (VPPs).<\/p>\n

Australia’s energy scene is quite a different beast to even just 15 years ago, but current arrangements concerning electricity pricing were primarily developed at a time when electricity flowed in just one direction.<\/p>\n

In June this year<\/a>, the Australian Energy Market Commission indicated it would be carrying out a broad consumer-centric electricity tariff pricing review. In July, the review was launched<\/a> and draft terms of reference published for comment. Since that time, the AEMC has established an Advisory Group and Stakeholder Reference Group and carried out ongoing stakeholder engagement.<\/p>\n

Review Focus Areas<\/h2>\n

Last week, the final Terms of Reference<\/a>\u00a0 for the review were published, indicating the focus areas will be:<\/p>\n