A Reliable, Resilient and Safe Electricity Network

Our regulatory Reset aims to better understand customers’ views on affordability and how it balances against the safety, reliability, and replacement of our ageing assets. Understanding these views allows us to reduce depreciation charges over the next regulatory period, providing customers with better service and having a favourable impact on pricing.

Doug Schmidt, Executive General Manager, Network Management, talks about the challenge in managing risks associated with ageing assets while balancing the impact on costs for our customers. While costs to renew ageing assets are increasing, reducing depreciation charges will have an offsetting and favourable impact on customers’ electricity bills.

In our reset engagement, we want to hear from our customers and stakeholders about how we can best balance the increasing costs of renewing our aging assets while providing an affordable service.

We also want to hear their views on what investment they would like to see in bushfire mitigation activities, as we anticipate more severe heatwaves and high fire danger days every year. Other areas we are discussing in this theme are vegetation management, emergency response, CBD reliability, public lighting, network augmentation, and servicing our remote and regional customers.

Click here to view the copy of Doug's presentation from our Regional engagement workshops, where he talks about the theme of a reliable, resilient, and safe electricity network for all. The videos within the presentation can be accessed through the video widget on the page.

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