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Regional Listening Tour

Craig Memery, Associate Director Stakeholder Engagement

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ECA’s objective

To promote the long term interests of Consumers of energy with respect to the price, quality, safety, reliability and security of supply of energy services by providing and enabling strong, coordinated, collegiate evidence based consumer advocacy on National Energy Market matters of strategic importance or material consequence for Energy Consumers, in particular Residential Customer and Small Business Customers.

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Where ECA fits inNEM Institutions Policy

Australian Energy Market

Commission

Australian Energy Regulator

Australian Energy Market Operator

New South Wales Commonwealth

South Australia

Queensland

Australian Capital Territory

COAG ENERGY COUNCIL

Victoria

Western Australia

Northern Territory

TasmaniaEnergy

Consumers Australia

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The National Energy Market (NEM)

• Worlds largest energy system

• Five regions• Interconnected• 4,500km end to

end

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Traditional energy system

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Who uses energy • 9.3 Million consumers• 200 TWh (200,000,000,000kWh) per year

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Source: Electricity Bill Benchmarks for Residential Customers, ACIL Allen Consulting, March 2015

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Source: Electricity Bill Benchmarks for Residential Customers, ACIL Allen Consulting, March 2015

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The future?