Publications

The JEC made a submission to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water’s (DCCEEW) consultation paper on Redefining roles and responsibilities for power system and market operations in a high consumer energy resources (CER) future. We opposed the suggestion that distribution network service providers (DNSP) should take on the new role of distribution…

The JEC made a submission to the Australian Energy Market Commission’s draft report for their review of the Wholesale Demand Response Mechanism (WDRM). We thanked the Commission for their confirmation that the WDRM enables offers for consumers beyond those associated with other demand flexibility mechanisms, in Consumer Energy Resources Benefits and the Integrating Price Responsive…

The Justice and Equity Centre provided a submission to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal’s consultation paper on their annual electricity and gas retail market monitoring report.

The JEC made a submission to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water’s (DCCEEW) consultation paper on aggregated resources in the Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS). We support the Department’s ambition to expand the CIS to aggregated resources as we believe that expanded competition will reduce auction and energy prices for consumers. We…

The Justice and Equity Centre led a joint consumer and community organisation submission in response to the Australian Energy Market Commission’s Draft Determination on the Improving application of concessions to bills proposed rule change. The joint submission was co-signed by nine other organisations

The JEC made a submission to the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water’s review of transmission planning in NSW (the Owens Review). We noted that the panel again agreed with our concerns about how inequitable cost recovery under the NSW Roadmap are, and how this impacted on matters within scope of…

The Justice and Equity Centre led a joint consumer and community response to the AEMC’s Draft Determination for the Improving the ability to switch to a better offer rule change. The submission was co-signed by the ACT Council of Social Service, Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association, the Ethnic Communities Council of NSW, Financial Counsellors’ Association…

The Justice and Equity Centre (JEC) made a submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in response to its consultation on unsolicited selling and lead generation.

The JEC made a submission to the Australian Energy market Commission (AEMC) 2026 Reliability Standard and Settings Review. We argued that the reliability regime must be grounded in the Australian Energy Regulator’s (AER) Values of Customer Reliability (VCR). Failure to do this will cause consumers to pay more than they would prefer to for the…