Decisions and Proposals

Decisions of the ERA and submissions from ATCO Gas Networks published during the 2014 review of proposed revisions to the Mid-West and South-West Gas Distribution System access arrangement are available in the tables below.

ERA revised access arrangement

Date	Documents	File type
29-Sep-15	Revised Access Arrangement	919 kB
10-Sep-15	Access Arrangement Decision	311 kB
10-Sep-15	Revised Access Arrangement [Superseded by version published on 29 September 2015]	897 kB
10-Sep-15	Access Arrangement Information	858 kB

ERA amended Final Decision on proposed revised access arrangement

Date	Documents	File type
10-Sep-15	Amended Final Decision on Proposed Revisions to the Access Arrangement for the Mid-West and South-West Gas Distributions Systems	12137 kB
10-Sep-15	Amended Final Decision on Proposed Revisions to the Access Arrangement for the Mid-West and South-West Gas Distributions Systems – Appendix 10 Public Tariff Model	661MB

Final Decision on proposed revised access arrangement

Date	Documents	File type
21-Aug-15	Consultation on the Proposed Amendments to the ATCO Access Arrangement Final Decision	1030 kB
01-Jul-15	Final Decision on Proposed Revisions to the Access Arrangement for the Mid-West and South-West Gas Distribution Systems	12.42MB
	Final Decision on Proposed Revisions to the Access Arrangement for the Mid-West and South-West Gas Distribution Systems - Appendix 10 Public Tariff Model	688 kB
	EMCa Addendum Report - Review of Technical Aspects of the Revised Access Arrangement	2.08 MB
	Deloitte Review of ATCO Gas Australia’s gas demand forecasts (April) - Final Public	777 kB
	Deloitte Revision of ATCO Gas Australia's gas demand forecasts (May) - Final	847 kB
	Chairmont ERA Hedging Costs in the Cost of Debt	112 kB
	Final Decision Fact Sheet	208 kB

Revisions to proposed revised access arrangement

Date	Documents	File type
07-Jan-15	ATCO Response to ERA Draft Decision	5.73 MB
	List of amendments to ATCO Response to ERA Draft Decision	140 kB
01-Dec-14	Access Arrangement - 27 November 2014	1303 kB
	MARKED UP Access Arrangement - 27 November 2014	415 kB
	Template Haulage Contract - 27 November 2014	2258 kB
	MARKED UP Template Haulage Contract - 27 November 2014	751 kB
	Covering Letter for Amended AAI - 27 November 2014	884 kB
	Response to the ERA s Draft Decision - 27 November 2014	5398 kB
	PUBLIC Tariff Model ATCO Gas Australia - 27 November 2014	5243 kB
	Appendix 1.1 Evaluation of Economic Regulation Authority's Draft Decision against the National Gas Objective	5443 kB
	Appendix 4.1 Gas Demand Forecast, Mid-West and South- West Distribution System Core Energy Group November 2014	2885 kB
	Appendix 4.2 Expert Witness Report on the Authority s Adjusted Demand Forecast, Paul Taliangis, Core Energy Group Opinion dated 25 November 2014	830 kB
	Appendix 4.3 ATCO Gas Australia Connection Forecast Economics Consulting Services (ECS) June 2014	1553 kB
	Appendix 4.4 ATCO residential gas forecast, letter from Economics Consulting Services (ECS) November 2014	202 kB
	Appendix 6.1 Gas Distribution Benchmarking Partial Productivity Measures Acil Allen November 2014	3476 kB
	Appendix 6.2 Operating Expenditure Forecasting Using the Revealed Cost Approach report (Scale), Acil Allen November 2014	6860 kB
	Appendix 6.3 Review of ATCO Gas Australia Capital and Operating Expenditure, Zincara, November 2014	4590 kB
	Appendix 6.4 The IT Operating Expenditure of the Access Arrangement for the Mid-West and South-West Gas Distribution System, KPMG November 2014	8257 kB
	Appendix 6.5 ATCO Gas Australia s Operating Costs	408 kB
	Appendix 6.6 Appendix to Acil Allen (see Appendix 6.2)	3743 kB
	Appendix 6.8 ATCO Gas Australia Pty Ltd - Economic Regulation Authority Price Determination A report prepared by Brent Stewart, November 2014	186 kB
	Appendix 9.1 The required return on equity Response to ATCO Gas Australia Draft Decision, Stephen Gray, SFG Consulting November 2014	1143 kB
	Appendix 9.2 CEG Report ATCO Response to draft decision	2478 kB
	Appendix 9.3 Cost of Equity in the Black Capital Asset Pricing Model, Stephen Gray, SFG Consulting May 2014	913 kB
	Appendix 9.4 The Fama-French model, Stephen Gray, SFG Consulting May 2014	1152 kB
	Appendix 9.5 Alternative versions of the dividend discount model and the implied cost of equity, Stephen Gray, SFG Consulting May 2014	982 kB
	Appendix 9.6 Equity beta, Stephen Gray, SFG Consulting May 2014	875 kB
	Appendix 9.7 Letter to Warwick Anderson Response to AER criticisms of estimates of average term of debt at issue Tom Hird CEG November 2013	351 kB
	Appendix 9.8 Debt strategies of utility businesses, Tom Hird, Competition Economists Group (CEG) June 2013	1342 kB
	Appendix 9.9 Better Regulation, Rate of Return Guideline, Australian Energy Regulator (AER) December 2013	1431 kB
	Appendix 9.10 Better Regulation, Rate of Return Guideline, Explanatory Statement, Australian Energy Regulator (AER) December 2013	1972 kB
	Appendix 9.11 Transitional Arrangements for the Cost of Debt, Dr Martin Lally, Capital Financial Consultants Ltd November 2014	327 kB
	Appendix 10.1 Estimating gamma Response to ATCO Gas Australia Draft Decision, Stephen Gray, SFG Consulting November 2014	1082 kB
	Appendix 11.1 Evaluation of ERA s Draft Decision of ATCO s Depreciation allowance, Greg Houston, HoustonKemp November 2014	4545 kB
	Appendix 12.1 ATCO Gas Australia Capital Contribution Policy August 2014	794 kB
	Appendix 12.2 ATCO Gas Australia Capital Contribution Procedure July 2014	398 kB
	Appendix 12.4 Review of regulated tax asset base for regulated revenue purposes - addendum to the report of Vaughan Lindfield, Vaughan Linfield, Ernst; Young, 21 November 2014 the required return on equity from independent expert reports	524 Kb
	PUBLIC Supporting Information - Capital Growth Project NPVs	31 kB

ERA Papers

Date	Documents	File type
20-Apr-15	Calculation of time for final decision release	118 kB
04-Mar-15	Estimating the return on debt discussion paper	687 kB
14-Oct-14	Media Statement	303 kB
	Draft Decision - Public	7.30 MB
	Draft Decision - Appendix 9 - ERA GDS Tariff Model - Public Model	749 kB
	The Cost of Debt - Dr Martin Lally	149 kB
	EMCa Report to ERA on ATCO Gas AA4 - Public Redacted	4.05 MB
02-May-14	Issues Paper	1.5 MB

Proposed revisions to the current access arrangement

Date	Documents	File type
14-Oct-14	ATCO Letter Revised IT Arrangement	2.11MB
	ATCO Letter Revised UAFG Arranagement	1.17MB
	ATCO Updated Tariff Model - PUBLIC	5.79MB
11-Apr-14	Tariff Model	5.7 MB
03-Apr-14	Access Arrangement	638 kB
	Access Arrangement Comparison	2.3 MB
	Template Haulage Contract (clean)	1.4 MB
	Template Haulage Contract (amended)	1.9 MB
	Access Arrangement Information	6.5 MB
	Glossary to the Access Arrangement Information	307 kB
	Appendix 02A - Specific requirements for access arrangement information	164 kB
	Appendix 03 - Connections Forecast	1.2 MB
	Appendix 04 - Gas Demand Forecast	1.3 MB
	Appendix 05 - The Use of EDD for Weather Normalisation	256 kB
	Appendix 06 - Technology Strategy	433 kB
	Appendix 07 - Procurement Policy	135 kB
	Appendix 08 - Benchmarking the Victorian Gas Distribution Businesses Operating and Capital Costs Using Partial Productivity Indicators	509 kB
	Appendix 09 - Gas Distribution Benchmarking	1.7 MB
	Appendix 10 - Review of Gas distribution businesses unaccounted for gas	384 kB
	Appendix 11 - Know when it's time to replace Enterprise Network Equipment	154 kB
	Appendix 12 - Applying the new capital expenditure criteria to expansions	603 kB
	Appendix 13 - Depreciation Options	3 MB
	Appendix 14 - Submission on price and revenue regulation of gas services	354 kB
	Appendix 15 - Report on cost accounting for gas pipelines	334 kB
	Appendix 16 - Testimony on the cost of capital for Alberta utilities	852 kB
	Appendix 17 - Office of the Chair letter on Rate of Return Guidelines	61 kB
	Appendix 18 - Estimating the Expected Return on the Market in the context of recent regulatory debate	2.1 MB
	Appendix 19 - Estimating the required Return on Equity	1.2 MB
	Appendix 20 - Cost of debt consistent with the National Gas Rules and the National Gas Law	1.9 MB
	Appendix 21 - Financial Services Guide and Independent Expert’s Report to the Independent Board Sub-committee in relation to the Proposal by APA Group	3 MB
	Appendix 22 - Regression based estimates for risk parameters for the benchmark firm	446 kB
	Appendix 23 - Evidence on the required return on equity from independent expert reports	12 MB
	Appendix 24 - Estimating Gamma Report	461 kB
	Appendix 25 - 2008-2009 General rate application	297 kB
	Appendix 26 - Review of regulated Tax Asset Base for regulated revenue purposes	99 kB
	Appendix 27 - Avoidable and stand alone cost assessment by reference tariff class	69 kB
	Appendix 28 - Gas Distributor Benchmarking Report	334 kB
	Appendix 29 - Depreciation of assets under the National Gas Rules	425 kB
	Appendix 33 - Infill Program focus group report	1 MB
	Appendix 34 - Rate of Return Guidelines Meeting the requirements of the National Gas Rules	285 kB
	Appendix 35 - Market Evidence on the Cost of Equity	452 kB