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Market: wholesale & retail work

This section contains details relating to the Authority's current work in the wholesale and retail electricity market. You can also link to earlier wholesale and retail work.

Current wholesale projects are:

• Priority projects, including:
  
  • Demand side bidding forecasting
  • Dispatchable demand
  • Locational Hedges project
  • Scarcity pricing and default buy-back project
• Development of the hedge market
• Pricing improvement project

Current retail projects are:

• Priority projects, including:
  
  • Consumer switching fund
  • More standardisation of distribution tariff structures and use-of-system agreements project
  • Part 10 review (previously known as the Part D Review)
• Advanced metering policy implementation
• Domestic electricity retail contracts
• Model arrangements for electricity distribution services
• Managing retailer default situations

Earlier wholesale projects are:

• Development of the publication of risk management contract information
• Market Design Review
• Wind integration project

Earlier retail projects are:

• Consumer rights and policy work including:
  
  • Dispute resolution scheme
  • Arrangements to assist vulnerable and medically dependent consumers
  • Property rights for load management
  • Retail and social agency protocol
• Reconciliation project
• Retail Market survey

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