We licence a range of Victorian gas and electricity businesses. We also publish codes and guidelines that regulated businesses must follow, and conduct reviews and inquiries that promote the long-term interests of electricity and gas consumers.
Electricity and gas
View licences for electricity and gas distributors, retailers and transmission services, and Victorian electricity generators. You can also view information on who is exempt from electricity licensing and how to apply for an exemption.
We regulate through a combination of legislation, licences, and codes and guidelines.
Access resources that impose certain obligations on Victorian electricity and gas businesses.
Read the resources we produce on electricity and gas performance and reporting.
View determinations on electricity tariffs, and reviews and industry inquiries that promote the long-term interests of electricity and gas consumers.
Learn about your rights as an electricity and gas consumer.
Featured work
July to December 2017
The report provides information on energy offers, customers experiencing payment difficulty, and how energy companies have performed. It also provides an update on new energy rules we have developed, newly licensed energy companies, and the actions we are undertaking to improve outcomes for Victorian energy consumers.
We have been working to implement key recommendations from Victorian Government's retail energy market review (an independent bipartisan review of electricity and gas retail markets).
The minimum tariff for households and businesses who feed power back into the electricity grid from small renewable energy sources (like solar panels) is 11.3 cents per kilowatt hour.
This code sets out the rules electricity and gas retailers must follow when selling energy to Victorian customers.
Current consultations
We are proposing changes to voltage standards contained in the Electricity Distribution Code. Send us your feedback on our draft decision by 5 pm on 22 June 2018.
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.