Draft PDRS Method Guide consultation
Consultation on the draft Method Guide for the Peak Demand Reduction Scheme (PDRS) ended on 4 July 2024. Thank you for your submissions. We received 19 non-confidential submissions (published below) and 10 confidential submissions.
We considered all feedback in finalising our PDRS Method Guide. Our What we heard document summarises stakeholder feedback and our response.
Consultation documents
Changes to implementation data
Thank you for your submissions. We have used this feedback to finalise the consultation outcomes.
As a result of feedback, we have removed the requirement to provide refrigerant data for hot water heaters. All other data requirements will remain the same as originally proposed.
The changes to implementation data to require products data will go live in TESSA on 1 August 2024. Refer to the updated CSV Specification Guide, ESS Examples template and PDRS Examples template for further details.
We will be collecting product data at the time of certificate registration for the following activities under the ESS and PDRS:
- Hot water heaters
- Air conditioning units
- Refrigerated display cabinets
- Pool pumps.
Our What we heard document summarises the consultation outcomes, stakeholder feedback and our response.
Operational changes to scheme participant compliance processes
Consultation on proposed operational changes to scheme participant compliance processes has ended.
Thank you for your submissions. We have used this feedback to finalise the consultation outcomes.
For the 2023 ESS and 2023-24 PDRS reporting periods we will implement the proposed approaches to:
- provide scheme participants with gross electricity market purchase data for use in calculating their market purchases
- amend ESS and PDRS audit requirements.
We have also removed the PDRS obligation for scheme participants to notify us of exemptions and liable acquisitions by 31 May. This requirement will now be met when you lodge your Individual Liable Demand in TESSA in November.
Our What we heard document summarises the consultation outcomes, stakeholder feedback and our response. We have also published non-confidential submissions below.
Consultation Documents
Changing audit conditions and increasing certificate creation limits
Consultation on changes to how ACPs apply to change audit and certificate creation limit conditions and the typical approach to increasing certificate creation limits ended on 28 March 2024.
Thank you for your submissions. We have published the non-confidential submissions below and used the feedback to finalise our approach and Guide for amending audit and certificate creation limit conditions.
Our What we heard document summarises the consultation outcomes, stakeholder feedback and our response.
Documents
Other consultations
Documents from earlier consultations can be found using the Document search function at the top of the page and selecting the document type ‘Consultation’. You can also filter results by scheme and calculation method.