Draft report: Retail electricity price investigation 2020 - 24

Draft report: Retail electricity price investigation 2020 - 24

On 4 February 2020, the Commission released a draft report and proposed price direction for standing offer prices for the supply of electricity to small customers on ActewAGL’s regulated tariffs from 1 July 2020. The draft report also sets out the Commission’s draft recommendations to improve the transparency and comparability in the ACT retail electricity market.

A copy of the draft report, the proposed price direction and media release are available below.

As part of the investigation the Commission engaged Frontier Economics to provide advice on setting the contracting position which is used in the calculation of wholesale electricity purchase costs. A copy of Frontier Economics’ report is available below.

The Commission surveyed ACT electricity consumers as part of its investigation into the comparability and transparency of electricity offers. The survey results are available below.