Consultations

We have released a consultation paper on enabling mass participation in the electricity market. The market is changing rapidly, with evolving technologies and business models creating new opportunities for participation—more participation has the potential to promote competition, a key limb of the Authority’s statutory objective.

We have a comprehensive programme of projects aimed at identifying and reducing inefficient barriers to developing and using evolving technologies and business models across the electricity supply chain, and allowing for more participation.

The focus of this consultation is to identify the ‘gaps’ in that programme and what further work needs to occur.  Broadly, we want to know your views on these key questions:

• What opportunities do you see for more participation across the electricity supply chain?
• What changes are needed for consumers to experience the benefits of innovation in technology and business models?

To help us answer these questions, we are asking a series of specific questions about how the electricity industry is changing, the potential benefits, and the things that may need to change.