Nexa Advisory welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Australian Energy Regulator’s (AER) Consultation Paper and Draft Significant Price Reporting Guidelines (Guidelines).
We strongly support the AER’s intention to ensure that high-price reporting remains fit-for-purpose in a changing National Electricity Market (NEM). However, we believe that a key objective reporting should be to explicitly recognise and systematically demonstrate the role of coal-fired generator unreliability in driving high-price events and associated consumer costs.
We recommend that the AER transparently reports coal unreliability and its cost impacts – as part of the significant price report and through Wholesale Electricity Market Performance reporting.
Read our submission here: Nexa Advisory submission – AER Significant price reporting