Retail Gas Governance Forum

Date Published: Tue, 01/06/2010 - 14:12 Author: Andrew Walker

Overview
Consultation
Publications
Meetings

Overview

Date Published: Tue, 01/06/2010 - 14:12 Author: Andrew Walker

Status: In Progress

The purpose of the Retail Gas Governance Forum (RGGF) is to provide a forum for the identification of issues, the exchange of views and for consensus agreement on joint courses of action in relation to the development and operation of gas governance arrangements and other retail related matters which form part of the role of Gas Industry Co; and which impact on the operation of retail markets and the relationship between retailers and each of consumers, distributors, transmission system owners, and Gas Industry Co.

In carrying out this purpose the RGGF may agree to establish time limited or on going working groups for the more detailed discussion or development of specific topics. Such working groups will have defined terms of reference, usually developed by Gas Industry Co in consultation with the RGGF.

Further details of the functions of the RGGF are given in the terms of reference, which can be viewed here:

RGGF Terms of reference 10/03/09

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Consultation

Date Published: Tue, 01/06/2010 - 14:13 Author: Andrew Walker

Previously Consulted On

Consultation on proposed information exchange file formats

Date Published: Wed, 10/11/2010 - 09:48 Author: Andrew Walker

Date Published: 10 November 2010

Gas Industry Co invites submissions on four file formats, which have been proposed by the Information Exchange File Formats Working Group. Use of the file formats is not mandated by any set of governance arrangements, but equivalent protocols are currently used in the electricity industry for exchanges of information between retailers and network owners. If the industry consultation does not raise any issues, the file format protocols will be published as a guideline on the Gas Industry Co website.

Consultation_on_proposed_file_formats_154805.2.pdf

Submissions received

Contact Energy

GasNet

Powerco

Vector Limited

Publications

Date Published: Tue, 01/06/2010 - 14:13 Author: Andrew Walker

Publications, guidelines and papers produced in association with the retail gas governance forum are provided below. Consultation or discussion papers on which submissions are, or have been, invited can be found in the Consultation tab.

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Review of Consumption Information Estimation Methodology Options

Strata Review

As part of the 2010 policy review of the Gas (Downstream Reconciliation) Rules 2008, Gas Industry Co engaged Strata Energy Consulting Limited (Strata) to investigate consumption information estimation methodologies. The project included a review of gas retailers' current forecasting methods, analysis of the accuracy of current estimation methodologies, identification and evaluation of possible improvements that could be made to retailer estimation and/or the initial allocation, and a comparison with estimation accuracy in the electricity sector.