The Tariffs & Pricing panel provides us with expertise on how we can best design and implement network pricing that reflects customer behaviour and how customers interact with electricity. This includes how best to transition customers to new tariffs as part of the energy transition.

To help us, we’ve set up a panel of customers and other stakeholders to guide our work. Over the next couple of years, we will continue to talk to customers and communities on our network through a range of research and engagement activities.

Our tariffs & pricing panel is made up of customers and stakeholders from across our network – from experts on energy to ‘everyday’ customers – are engaging with us as part of a wider Electricity Distribution Price Review (EDPR) engagement program.

Our Tariffs & Pricing panel members:

• Chris Harvey
• Dean Lombard
• Nick Mason-Smith
• Emma Chessell
• Kate Hansen
• Gavin Dufty
• Jeff Nottle

During our tariffs & pricing panel meetings, we will be engaging with our panel members to answer the following questions:

1. Revenue allocation between tariff classes: How might we allocate revenue across different tariff classes in a balanced, justified and proportional way, that also provides support for customers with specialised needs?

2. Impact of tariffs on customers including impact of doing nothing: How might we better analyse and understand customer impact, including understanding the impact of 'doing nothing', to help us make more informed decisions?

3. Accommodating CER: How might we use tariffs to enable and facilitate an energy transition without unexpected downside impact, and reflect the value of CER in the energy system irrespective of their specific technologies?

4. Take-up of tariffs: How might we build customers' agency on tariff choices, and smoothly support customers to transition to cost-reflective tariffs?

5. Pricing objectives: How might we ensure tariff design reflects agreed pricing objectives?