Powerlink lodges a Revenue Proposal to the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) every five years. Our Revenue Proposal outlines forecast revenue requirements to provide an efficient, safe and reliable transmission service.

The AER published its Final Decision on our 2023-27 Revised Revenue Proposal on 29 April 2022.

AER Final Decision

Our revised Revenue Proposal accepted all of the key elements of the AER’s Draft decision with updates for inflation and updated actual and forecast expenditure for 2020/21 and 2021/22. The AER Final Decision accepted all of the key elements of our Revised Revenue Proposal with standard updates to financial and market parameters.

Find out more detail about the AER’s Final Decision in our overview:

View the complete Final Decision on the AER’s website.

 

Revised Revenue Proposal

Our Revised Revenue Proposal was lodged to the AER on 19 November 2021. We accepted almost all elements of the AER’s Draft Decision in our Revised Revenue Proposal.

We are pleased the AER considered our Revenue Proposal capable of acceptance in its Draft Decision and accepted all major aspects of it. Similarly, our Customer Panel also confirmed that capable of acceptance was met from its point of view.

View our Revised Revenue Proposal below.

AER Draft Decision

The AER published its Draft Decision on our 2023-27 Revenue Proposal on 30 September 2021. In the Draft Decision, the AER stated our Revenue Proposal was capable of acceptance, acknowledged our extensive consumer engagement and accepted all major aspects. View our Overview of the AER’s Draft Decision below.

More information is available on the AER’s website.

Revenue Proposal

Our Revenue Proposal was lodged to the AER on 28 January 2021. We undertook extensive engagement with our customers, stakeholders, the AER’s Consumer Challenge Panel and AER staff on all key elements of our Revenue Proposal. This engagement occurred as part of our overarching goal to deliver a Revenue Proposal that is capable of acceptance by Powerlink's customers, the AER and ourselves. View our Revenue Proposal below.

More information is available on the AER's website.

A breakdown of chapters from our Revenue Proposal is available from the 'Key Resources' section of this page under the 'Revenue Proposal' section.

 

Revenue Proposal Reference Group resources

10 December 2020


13 November 2020 - Insurance Deep Dive

 

29 October 2020

 

24 September 2020

 

25 June 2020 

 

30 April 2020

 

26 March 2020

 

27 February 2020

 

31 January 2020

Revenue Proposal Engagement Timeline

1 July 2022

Start of new regulatory period

29 April 2022

AER released its Final Decision

19 November 2021

Powerlink lodged its Revised Revenue Proposal with the AER

15 November 2021

Transmission Network Forum 2021

14 October 2021

AER Public Forum

30 September 2021

AER released its Draft Decision

24 May 2021

Submissions close on Revenue Proposal

8 April 2021

AER Public Forum

February 2021

AER commenced review of Powerlink’s Revenue Proposal and invited public submissions

28 January 2021

Powerlink lodged its Revenue Proposal with the AER

13 November 2020

Insurance Deep Dive

30 October 2020

Feedback closes on the Draft Revenue Proposal

30 September 2020

Powerlink released Draft Revenue Proposal

10 September 2020

Transmission Network Forum 2020

10 August 2020

Powerlink released Preliminary Positions and Forecasts Paper (PPFP)

31 July 2020

AER published Final Framework and Approach Paper

30 June 2020

Powerlink submitted Expenditure Forecasting Methodology to the AER

30 March 2020

Letter to AER - Preliminary Framework and Approach Paper

21 February 2020

AER released preliminary Framework and Approach

11 December 2019

Decision to replace Framework and Approach for Powerlink

31 October 2019

Framework and Approach initiation letter

24 May 2019

Engagement Co-Design Workshop

Full timeline

Key resources

Customer Overviews

Revised Revenue Proposal

Response to Submissions

Revenue Proposal

Draft Revenue Proposal

Preliminary Positions and Forecasts Paper (PPFP)

Expenditure Forecasting Methodology

Framework and Approach

Engagement approach

Business narrative

Contact

Jenny Harris

Jenny Harris

General Manager Network Regulation
07 3860 2111

Asset Reinvestment Review

Powerlink undertook a review of its asset reinvestment approach and criteria to ensure consistency with sound asset management and risk-based decision frameworks. The review was an opportunity for continuous improvement to deliver further benefits for customers.

We established the Asset Reinvestment Review Working Group consisting of three members of our Customer Panel, customer advocates, the AER and Powerlink subject matter experts.

The purpose of the group was to consider key aspects of our Asset Reinvestment approach and develop a report with potential recommendations for implementation.

A summary of findings and outcomes can be found at: Customer Panel - Presentation - 12 September 2024.pdf 

Asset Reinvestment Review Terms of Reference

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