Overview
Australians have embraced consumer energy resources (CER) such as solar panels, home batteries and electric vehicles. CER if well-integrated could present significant opportunities to lower energy bills and power system costs and reduce emissions.
A power system high in CER differs from traditional systems and new ways of doing things are needed to harness its full potential.
Consultation
From 9 July to 20 August 2025, consultation was open on redefining roles for market and power system operations in a high CER future. This work forms part of the National CER Roadmap.
The submissions we received are available on the Published submissions page.
The feedback provided will help shape recommendations to develop well-aligned and optimised distribution networks that make the best use of CER.
The work to redefine roles for market and power systems operations aims to integrate CER into the power system and market by:
defining all activities required for an effective power system and market operations in a high CER future
assigning them to the appropriate ‘roles’ (type of organisation) and ‘actors’ (actual organisation)
considering ways to improve how key activities are done. This includes options to reform market and governance arrangements at the distribution level.
*During this consultation, a separate consultation on Data Sharing Arrangements (M2) in a high CER future was run at the same time.
Online information sessions
As part of the consultation on redefining roles for market and power system operations, two online information sessions were held. They gave stakeholders the opportunity to ask questions and get more information.
On 23 July 2025, a public forum was held and included a presentation by the project leads.
On 5 August 2025, there was a public question-and-answer (Q&A) session.
The presentation from the public forum and a document containing questions and answers from the Q&A session are available. To request one or both of these resources, please email certaskforceg@dcceew.gov.au.
Consultation documents
DSMO Consultation paper [PDF 2.4MB]
DSMO Consultation paper [DOCX 2.4 MB]
CEPA Report [PDF 32MB]
CEPA Report [DOCX 1.7MB]
Appendices (PDF 1.8MB]
Appendices (DOCX 1.5MB]
Role and Actor Glossary [PDF 290KB]
Role and Actor Glossary [DOCX 76KB]
Overview of Analytical Framework and Industry Capability Model [PDF 2MB]
Overview of Analytical Framework & Industry Capability Model [DOCX 1MB] - Common to M2
Capability, use case and role-actor assignment [XLSX 52KB] – Common to M2
Use Case Group Diagrams [PDF 26.2MB] - Common to M2
Activity Diagrams [PDF 6.46MB] - - Common to M2
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