New Energy Resilience and Consumer Rules for Electricity and Gas Customers

Energy and Other Legislation Amendment (Resilience Reforms and Other Matters) Bill 2026

1st House

2nd House

Law

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Effects of this bill

If this bill passes, it means that:

The Australian Energy Regulator must notify distribution companies and Energy Safe Victoria of the specific resilience projects and expenditure required for a regulatory control period.
Distribution companies must prepare and submit a network resilience plan to Energy Safe Victoria for acceptance.
Energy Safe Victoria must notify the distribution company whether its resilience plan is accepted within a set timeframe.
Energy Safe Victoria can require distribution companies to provide additional information to help decide if a resilience plan should be accepted.
Energy Safe Victoria is empowered to regulate, monitor, and enforce compliance with these network resilience plans.
Energy Safe Victoria must publish guidelines on its website regarding how resilience plans are prepared, submitted, and audited.

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