National Consumer Energy Resources (CER) Roadmap - Consultation on technical priorities

Overview

Australian consumers have made record-breaking investment in consumer energy resources (CER) such as rooftop solar and home batteries. The high uptake of CER is driving one of the fastest transformations of electricity systems in the world.

In July 2024, Energy Ministers agreed to the National CER Roadmap (the Roadmap) which sets out an overarching vision and implementation plan for CER.

Consultation on some of the Roadmap’s technical priorities was open from 15 August 2025 to 14 September 2025. We invited feedback on the following topics:

• Current CER issues and priority outcomes to be achieved through regulation.

• A draft national technical regulatory framework for CER

• Technical standards for CER interoperability

This consultation is now closed. Thank you to everyone who participated. We received a range of submissions and those that can be made public are available at the links below:

• Submissions for National Technical Regulatory Framework

• Submissions for Technical Standards on CER Interoperability

It is expected Energy Ministers will consider the outcomes of this consultation in late 2025.

Survey on current CER issues and priority outcomes to be achieved through regulation

We had 22 participants take our survey to give us input to help identify current CER issues and priority outcomes.

Individual energy consumers represented the largest segment of respondents (6) followed by participants working for distribution network service providers (4). Eight of these responses were on behalf of an organisation. A majority of 14 respondents participated on behalf of themselves.

What we heard

We asked participants to rank key CER issues and priority outcomes according to their importance or urgency to national technical regulation.

• Product Interoperability was ranked top 5 by 19 participants as the most urgent issue respondents would like to see addressed.

• Inconsistency across jurisdictions also ranked highly with 7 participants ranking it as the most urgent issue they would like to see addressed.

• Secure and reliable CER was most frequently ranked as the highest priority outcome. This was closely followed by:

  • accelerated update of CER

  • shared benefits for energy consumers from utilisation of CER

  • future-ready CER.

• Participants ranked responsiveness as the most important attribute for a national technical regulator.

Consultation documents

Survey on current CER issues and priority outcomes

• No consultation documents

Consultation on Draft Prototype CER National Technical Regulatory Framework

• National Technical Regulatory Framework - Draft prototype [PDF 683KB]

• National Technical Regulatory Framework - Draft prototype [DOCX 447KB]

Consultation on Technical Standards for Consumer Energy Resources (CER) Interoperability

• Technical Standards for Consumer Energy Resources (CER) Interoperability - Consultation Paper [PDF 1.4MB]

• Technical Standards for Consumer Energy Resources (CER) Interoperability - Consultation Paper [DOCX 1.6MB]

• ANU Report - Technical and Interoperability Standards for CER - Pathway for Implementation [PDF 1.3MB]

• ANU Report - Technical and Interoperability Standards for CER - Pathway for Implementation [DOCX 1.7MB]

• Capability, Use Case and Role Actor assignment - Redefine roles for market and power systems operations workstream (M3,P5) [XLSX 48KB]

Related projects

• National Consumer Energy Resources (CER) Roadmap - Redefine roles for market and power system operations – M3/P5

• National Consumer Energy Resources (CER) Roadmap - Data Sharing Arrangements – M2

Read more

• Information on the National Consumer Energy Resources Roadmap