EnergyAustralias application to IPART on Public Lighting Pricing Proposals

The attached document provides details of EnergyAustralia's original public lighting price proposals submitted to IPART. The Tribunal has considered these proposals under the Regulation of Excluded Distribution Services Rule 2004/1. EnergyAustralia's proposal is for an average price increase of 26 percent above the rate of inflation in early 2005, to be followed by further increases in 2005 and in subsequent years. The Tribunal is not satisfied that EnergyAustralia's Public Lighting price proposals comply with all of the requirements of Clause 2.3 of Rule 2004/1. the Tribunal has therefore required EnergyAustralia to submit alternative prices.