Retail Competition
The Office has developed a new website to provide information to customers about retail competition. Please proceed to www.power.tas.gov.au in the first instance for information about retail contestability.
Public Benefit Assessment of Full Retail Competition
The Regulator received a request from the Treasurer under section 9 of the Electricity Supply Industry Act 1995 to conduct a public benefit assessment of extending retail competition to all Tasmanian electricity customers. Click here for more details.
Notice of Customer Contestability Status
Aurora Energy Pty Ltd holds information about the electricity consumption of current customers and is responsible for determining the contestability status of customers. After Aurora Energy has assessed that a customer is to become contestable, it is then required to notify the customer. This notice of contestability status is to be provided to customers no later than nine months before that customer becomes contestable.
Determination of Contestability Status by the Regulator
Customers may apply to the Regulator for a determination of their contestability status in respect of a single site if they believe that a change in circumstances (such as an expansion or a new business activity) may make a site eligible to be classified as contestable.
Fallback Contract Approval
Aurora Energy, holder of an electricity retail licence, has submitted two draft pro-forma fallback contracts for approval – one for Tranche 1 to Tranche 3 customers and one for Tranche 4 customers.
Aurora Energy Pro-forma Fallback Contract for customers with electricity consumption >750 MWh per year
Aurora Energy  submitted a draft pro-forma fallback contract, proposed retail margin and other costs for the Regulator’s approval. The Regulator invited submissions on its Draft Decision on the Aurora Energy draft pro-forma fallback contract, proposed retail margin and other costs. Submissions closed on 12 December 2006 and no submissions were received.
The Regulator released its Final Decision on 21 December 2006. The effective date for the approved pro-forma contract, retail margin and other costs was 27 December 2006, the gazettal date for the approved pro-forma contract.
Aurora Energy Pro-forma Fallback Contract for customers with electricity consumption between and >150 MWh per year and ≤750 MWh per year
The Regulator invited written submissions on its Draft Decision on Aurora Energy's draft pro-forma fallback contract for Tranche 4 customers and proposed retail margin and retail service costs. Consultation closed 14 August 2009 and no submissions were received.
The Regulator released its Final Decision on 27 August 2009.
The effective date for the approved pro-forma fallback contract was 2 September 2009, the gazettal date for the approved pro-forma fallback contract.
Information on fallback arrangements can be found on www.power.tas.gov.au. |