AGL Energy has weighed in on deliberations over whether or not consumers should foot the bill for a blow-out in the cost of a major New South Wales transmission project, arguing the claim by network company Transgrid relies on “an artificial framing of events that misapplies the rules.
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The Justice and Equity Centre – a leading, independent law and policy centre – is also critical of Transgrid’s actions, describing the reopener application as “fundamentally misconceived,” and saying that it “must be rejected.”
“The Reopener Rule is engaged only where a Transmission Network Service Provider ‘proposes to undertake capital expenditure’: cl 6A.7.1(a)(3),” the submission says.
“It does not apply where expenditure has already been undertaken.
