Third Party Arrangements Solar Customers from Spotlight On May 2022
| What entities provide their energy services? |
| Australian Consumer Law (ACL) & National Credit Laws |
National Energy Customer Framework (NECF) |
- solar installers
- solar retailers
- Solar Power Purchase Agreements (SPPA) exempt
sellers
- community solar farm operators
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- authorised energy retailers
- licenced distributors
- metering providers
- embedded network operators
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| What are the products and services? |
| Australian Consumer Law (ACL) & National Credit Laws |
National Energy Customer Framework (NECF) |
- SPPAs
- community solar farms
- demand response programs
- data services, monitoring applications and home
energy management systems (HEMS)
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- retail market contracts
- solar feed-in tariffs and other benefits
- metering
- connection services
- supply and export of electricity
- access to retail data
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| What are some consumer issues and risk areas? |
| Australian Consumer Law (ACL) & National Credit Laws |
National Energy Customer Framework (NECF) |
- marketing by exempt sellers
- terms and conditions of SPPA
- membership and rewards for belonging to community energy projects
- rewards for participation in demand response programs
- access to and integrity of data from data services and monitoring applications
- explicit informed consent for control of customer appliances in HEMS
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- retail market contract terms
- marketing and offers
- information requirements
- disconnection and reconnection protections
- consumers experiencing vulnerability and affordability issues
- complaints and dispute resolution
- retailer failure
- metering
- billing including feed-in tariffs
- network connection, supply and export
- access to supply and export data
- transfer of retailer billing rights including explicit informed consent
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