We promote the long-term interests of Victorian consumers with respect to the price, quality and reliability of essential services.
Essential Services Commission
Featured work
We are reviewing the prices that 17 Victorian water businesses propose to charge from 1 July 2018.
Learn more about how we calculated the 2018-19 minimum feed-in tariff that energy companies must pay for energy that their small-scale customers export to the grid.
View maximum fares that will apply for unbooked taxis from 1 July 2018 in Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, and the Mornington Peninsula.
We have received one application for a higher rate cap in 2018-19, from Monash City Council.
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Featured consultations
We have released a draft decision regarding changes to the Compliance and Performance Reporting Guideline to support the commencement of the payment difficulty framework on 1 January 2019. Submit your feedback by Friday 22 June.
We are proposing changes to voltage standards contained in the Electricity Distribution Code. Submit feedback on the proposed changes outlined in our draft decision on the Review of Voltage Standards for Bushfire Mitigation by Friday 22 June.
Under the Commercial Passenger Vehicle Industry Act 2017 we are required to review maximum fares for commercial passenger vehicles every two years. We have released our draft decision and are seeking feedback until 19 July 2018.