Ann Whitfield and Oliver Nunn provided a report for Grid Australia commenting on the AER’s draft Annual Benchmarking Report for Electricity Transmission Network Service Providers, which notes the limitations of applying the performance measures included in the report to the task of assessing efficient capex and opex as part of a regulatory determination. Our report is here.
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