08 Dec 2015
Today IPART has released an Issues Paper for our review of electricity transmission reliability standards.
The NSW Government has asked IPART to review and recommend transmission reliability standards to apply to TransGrid for the regulatory control period commencing 1 July 2018.
Our terms of reference require us to develop and then apply an economic assessment methodology to evaluate the efficiency of a number of reliability scenarios we requested from TransGrid. These scenarios were developed in consultation with TransGrid’s stakeholders and represent different levels of network reliability.
The Issues Paper outlines TransGrid’s approach to developing reliability scenarios, describes the four scenarios we are intending to assess, and explains our proposed approach to undertaking the economic assessment. This is the first step in our consultation process.
Submissions on the Issues Paper are due 22 January 2016.