Under the Electricity Supply Act 1995, the Minister for Energy is responsible for issuing licences for the transmission and distribution of electricity in NSW. IPART administers the licensing regime on behalf of the Minister, which includes administration of licence fees.
Ausgrid, Endeavour Energy, Essential Energy, TransGrid and ACEREZ, (the licensed electricity network operators), are required to pay licence fees (annual or otherwise) under the conditions of their licences.
Each year, IPART makes a recommendation to the Minister, and the Minister determines the annual licence fees.
In 2025, we reviewed our methodology for calculating licence fees.
We released our draft report in April 2025 and we considered stakeholder input received during consultation on our draft report.
We provided our final report to the Minister in June 2025 outlining our final recommendations, including the recommended licence fees, which were approved by the Minister.
The new methodology applies to licence fees from 2025–26 and indexed annually for the following financial years.