IPART helps you get safe and reliable services at a fair price.

IPART has set the rate peg for the 2025-26 financial year using our new rate peg methodology.

We have set core council rate pegs for the 2025-26 financial year, ranging from 3.6% to 5.1%. There is a separate rate peg for each of NSW’s 128 councils.

We have completed our review of the ACEREZ Partnership application for a transmission operator’s licence and recommended the Minister for Energy approve the application.

The Minster for Energy considered our recommendation and granted ACEREZ Partnership a transmission operator’s licence with the conditions we proposed.

IPART is currently reviewing the cost of delivering OOHC and the pricing arrangements with the non-government providers who deliver care under contract with the NSW Government.

IPART has invited people and businesses involved in the NSW biodiversity credits market to provide feedback on a series of issues related to competition, fairness and efficiency in the market.

IPART has been asked to review and make recommendations on the maximum fares for travel in taxis caught from a taxi rank or hailed from the street (“rank and hail taxi services”).

IPART’s draft report on Maximum Opal fares until July 2028 is available for review.

We have made recommendations on proposed maximum fares for the next 4 years on rail, bus, ferry, light rail, metro and on-demand services within the Opal network. This also applies to the Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast, the Illawarra, and the Hunter.