Electricity Regulation 2006

A distribution entity must, for each financial year, prepare a demand management plan.

The distribution entity must include in the plan—

the entity’s long-term strategy for demand management (the strategy), including the following—

the principles intended to guide the achievement of the strategy;

a description of existing and planned programs for demand management for the next 5 financial years;

any identified opportunities to achieve the strategy; and

the entity’s proposed initiatives to be carried out under the strategy in the financial year, including the following—

a description of the initiative;

a forecast of the capital and operating costs for the initiative that the entity reasonably considers will be the likely costs for the year;

the entity’s performance targets for the initiative.

Subsection (2) does not limit the matters that may be included in the plan.

The distribution entity must, on or before each 30 April in the preceding financial year, give the regulator a copy of the entity’s plan for the financial year.