Electricity Authority Market Commentary

We are proposing changes to the regulatory settings for official conservation campaigns – one of the key tools we use to manage security of supply.

We have published our Annual Report for the 2017/18 financial year, highlighting our key achievements in promoting a competitive, reliable and efficient electricity market.

The electricity industry data system needs to support innovation while also continuing to support existing ways of doing business.

Today we published our Annual Report for the 2016/17 financial year, which demonstrates strong improvement across our three key outcomes of competition, reliability and efficiency.

It’s important to improve the certainty and reliability of spot price information to enable the growth of new technology, such as batteries and electric vehicles, and business models.

Rapid evolution is occurring in and around the electricity sector and it is imperative we identify and remove any inefficient barriers to emerging technology affecting the electricity sector.