Have your say on the Supply Connection Infrastructure review
As NSW accelerates its rollout of large renewable energy and battery projects, IPART has released an Options Paper to explore how regulation could apply to oversee supply connection infrastructure, ensuring safe and reliable integration with existing networks and tackling emerging challenges.
IPART has released an Options Paper outlining potential approaches to regulating supply connection infrastructure in NSW. More details on how to submit feedback are provided below.
Supply connection infrastructure (SCI), the poles, wires and lines, links renewable generators and battery storage to the electricity grid, supporting the powering of communities right across NSW, including regional centres and remote towns.
IPART is seeking community and industry feedback. Your feedback will contribute to shaping the regulatory framework for supply connection infrastructure in NSW.
The Options Paper:
- Sets out the problem we are seeking to address
- Summarises insights from other jurisdictions
- Outlines regulatory options for potential reform
- Assesses each options against a criteria
- Poses specific questions for stakeholder feedback
Have your say during the consultation period
Written submission are open from Monday, 9 March to Wednesday, 8 April 2026.
We invite submissions responding to the questions set out in the Options Paper. You may address any or all of the questions, and you are welcome to provide additional information that may be relevant to the review.
Make a submission
- Read the Options Paper
- Make an online submission
We value your feedback and will consider all submissions and comments received in forming our recommendations to the Minister on the regulatory framework for supply connection infrastructure in NSW.
Terms of Reference
NSW Government has asked IPART to investigate and report on the regulatory framework for SCI. Our Terms of Reference asked us to make recommendations on:
- The regulatory framework that should apply to Supply Connection Infrastructure
- Whether any of the assets currently regulated by the ES Act are more appropriately regulated under the new framework
- Any other regulatory framework improvements identified as part of the review.
Next steps
Following the close of submissions, we will hold a roundtable workshop in the last week of April 2026.
We will then consider all written submissions and insights from the roundtable workshop in developing our final report and recommendations to the Minister for Energy mid-year.