Publications
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Compensation following directions consultation
PIAC made a submission to the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) regarding a rule change to alter how affected participants are compensated for services other than energy and market ancillary services. PIAC broadly supports the rule change, which we consider may benefit consumers while having having limited impact on household consumers’ bills as it does…
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Electricity Network Economic Regulatory Framework approach paper
PIAC responded to the AEMC’s approach paper to the Electricity Network Economic Regulatory Framework (ENERF) review. PIAC addresses the 3 issues the AEMC has identified to examine in the 2020 ENERF, namely:
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Draft Guidelines to make the ISP actionable
PIAC responded to the Australian Energy Regulator’s (AER) consultation on draft guidelines for actioning the Integrated System Plan (ISP). We are generally supportive of the draft guidelines but highlight several issues. We recommend the objective of the ISP should be the long–term interests of consumers, rather than to maximise the present value of net economic benefit to…
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Energy Security Target and Safeguard
We responded to the NSW government consultation on its proposed Energy Security Target and Safeguard. The Energy Security Target provides an additional layer of regulatory security to meet the electricity demand by NSW consumers during summer peak periods. Importantly, it considers both supply and demand side resources to ensure the most efficient combination of actions…
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Submission to Inquiry into the exemption of delegated legislation from parliamentary oversight
PIAC’s approach to the question of exempting delegated legislation from oversight is based on four principles: The amount of delegated legislation, and specifically the amount of delegated legislation that is exempted from parliamentary oversight, was growing pre-COVID-19 and that this growth has only continued since. In this context, we recommend that the Legislation Act 2003…
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Submission to the Inquiry into homelessness in Australia
Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs – Inquiry into homelessness in Australia HPLS’s submission argues that Australia homelessness crisis is due to structural issues in the housing and social security systems. Decades of under-investment have created a severe social housing shortage. At the same time, renting and…
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Australian homelessness legal services – Common submission to the Inquiry into homelessness in Australia
Common submission from Australian homelessness legal services to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs – Inquiry into homelessness in Australia PIAC has worked with other Australian homelessness legal services in five states and territories to develop a collaborative response to the Committee’s Inquiry into homeless in Australia. Our organisations…
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Values of Customer Reliability – Widespread and Long Duration Outages
PIAC responded to the Australian Energy Regulator’s (AER) consultation on valuing avoiding Widespread and Long Duration Outages (WALDO) as part of its Values of Customer Reliability work. We support the intent to value the impact of WALDOs but do not consider the proposed methodology is appropriate to be used in significant decisions regarding energy system…
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Submission to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services Inquiry into Litigation Funding and the Regulation of the Class Action Industry
In this submission PIAC makes the following two observations related to the type and level of regulation that should apply to Australia’s class action and litigation funding systems: Any proposals for reform of regulation of litigation funding or class action regimes should take account of these benefits to prospective plaintiffs and to the importance of…