Nexa Advisory Submission – AEMC Including distribution network resilience in the NER Draft determination

Nexa Advisory welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission on the AEMC’s Including distribution network resilience in the National Electricity Rules draft determination.

We support the intention of this rule change to improve the resilience, given its critical role in electricity security and affordability, and in ensuring that electricity consumers are not left behind clean energy transition.

However, while we acknowledge the AEMC’s response to our previous submission, we maintain that incremental changes to the regulatory framework do not create accountability for network planning, delivery and operation.

We emphasise that a performance-based regulatory approach should be integrated into the proposed resilience framework – to ensure DNSP incentives are aligned with consumer outcomes, and to mitigate any potential perverse incentives for DNSPs.

Read our submission here: Nexa Advisory – AEMC distribution network resilience draft determination