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Our Electricity Distribution Price Review proposal outlines our future plans and costs for our electricity distribution network for 2026-2031. We submitted our proposal to the AER on 31 Jan 2025. It is currently being reviewed by the AER. Following a public consultation process, the AER will publish their draft decision on our proposal on 30 September 2025. We will then have an opportunity to submit a revised, final proposal before the AER makes its final decision and the new regulatory arrangements take effect on 1 July 2026.
View our Electricity Distribution Price Review plan for 2026-2031
Our plan was developed with valuable input from customers and stakeholders. We wanted to focus on what matters most to our customers and have shaped our approach around that.
We've actively listened to and engaged with customers and stakeholders throughout the process to address their priorities and help balance overall value-for-money and affordability through our plan.
Prior to publishing our proposal and submitting it to the Australian Energy Regulator, we shared a draft with customers and stakeholders and gathered their feedback, which has been incorporated into the final plan. You can view our draft plan and the feedback we received from customers and stakeholders below.
We shared a draft of our proposal with customers and stakeholders and gathered their feedback, which has been incorporated into the final plan
The Coordination Group is made up of 6 members who are also members of one or more panels.
The group oversees a number of tasks including identifying and raising conflicts or overlaps between panels, and works collaboratively with AusNet to identify value-stacking opportunities.
Understanding our customers' preferences regarding network reliability, resilience and availability, and ensure our investment plans appropriately balance affordability and reliability.
Understanding the service levels customers value and expect, including how customers want to interact with us and how that might change in the future.
Understanding our customers' preferences around new technologies, including the best ways the network can unlock more value for all customers.
Understanding how to design and implement network pricing that reflects customer behaviour and their interaction with electricity.
Understanding AusNet's benchmarking performance and implications for the review proposal for consumer outcomes.
The Research & Engagement panel works across all panels to ensure they have access to customer insights needed for their discussions. The Research & Engagement panel also participates in designing research and engagement activities and assists with prioritising resources.
Learn more about the customer workshops we're running across our electricity distribution network and other opportunities for customers and communities to engage with us as we develop our 5-year plan for the electricity distribution network.
Our engagement plan is a ‘living’ document, which outlines the engagement we will undertake on our EDPR 2026-31 program until we submit our proposal to the AER in early 2025.
We both recognise, and support, this document changing over time, as customer and other stakeholders begin their engagement activities with us, and as environmental circumstances continue to change. Updates to this document will be shared via the EDPR 2026-31 pages on Community Hub throughout 2023, 2024 and 2025.
View earlier versions of our engagement plan:
Our EDPR 2026-31 Engagement plan is the result of a co-design process with customer representatives and other stakeholders, and which builds on:
You can read the report from the co-design workshop, which helped us build and develop our engagement plan.
As outlined in the Letter of Agreement, panel members agree to declare all actual, perceived or potential conflicts of interest. Should a conflict of interest arise, members are asked to notify AusNet as soon as possible, disclose the conflict, and take steps that AusNet advises to manage or resolve the conflict. AusNet maintains a Conflict of Interest Register that records these disclosures, as well as actions taken in response to their disclosure.
To find out more, visit AusNet's Code of Conduct.
