Powerlink lodges its Revenue Proposal with the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) every five years. Our Revenue Proposal outlines forecast revenue requirements to provide an efficient, safe and reliable transmission service.

The AER must assess our Revenue Proposal to ensure it meets the requirements of the National Electricity Rules, and periodically will publish information on their website seeking customer input and feedback.

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The key milestones in our revenue determination process are illustrated below.

2027-2032 Regulatory Timeline

end October 2024

Powerlink notify AER to start Framework and Approach Process

end November 2024

AER consult on need for Framework and Approach

mid December 2024

AER Notice on Framework and Approach

March 2025

AER publish Positions Paper

June 2025

Powerlink lodge Expenditure Forecasting Methodology with AER

July 2025

AER publish Framework and Approach Paper

end September 2025

Powerlink publish draft Revenue Proposal

end January 2026

Powerlink lodge Revenue Proposal with AER

March 2026

AER publish Issues Paper

April 2026

AER Public Forum on Revenue Proposal

May 2026

Submissions close on Issues Paper/Revenue Proposal

end September 2026

AER publish Draft Decision

October 2026

AER Pre-determination Conference

December 2026

Powerlink lodge Revised Revenue Proposal with AER

end April 2027

AER publish Final Decision

January 2027

Submissions close on Revised Revenue Proposal

1 July 2027

New regulatory period starts

Full timeline

Contact

Roger Smith

Roger Smith

Director Revenue Reset
07 3860 2111

Reference Group

As part of the 2027-32 Revenue Determination process, we’ve formed a Revenue Proposal Reference Group with members of our Customer Panel.

This smaller group enables deeper, more frequent engagement to provide detailed customer input into Powerlink’s Revenue Proposal.

Meeting resources including presentations, meeting minutes and other relevant documents will be published on the Customer Panel webpage.