We support:
-Stronger standards on buildings, vehicles, and appliances to encourage fuel switching and the uptake of electrification, and to facilitate significant improvements to energy efficiency and productivity.
- Market and network reforms that support CER integration and enable customers to unlock and access value from CER investments, including reforms that embed the role of customers to lead the uptake and integration of CER, in recognition that customer choice and competition are critical to delivering innovation and value to customers.
- Improved pricing structures and network tariffs that support the accelerated uptake of CER, EVs, infrastructure and flexible charging.
- Network regulatory reform to drive significant improvement in electricity network efficiency and reductions in network costs to maximise CER value for all customers.
- A phaseout on new residential gas connections, and targeted restrictions and incentives to support the electrification of new and replacement gas appliances.
- A pathway for the CER installation workforce of the future, including upskilling capabilities and streamlining regulatory processes.

We support:
- Wholesale market reform that seeks to drive continued investment in generation and leverages competitive markets to deliver efficiently priced lowest-cost wholesale energy over the long term.
- Network tariff reform that is simple,actionable, and fair for all customers.
- Provision of enduring concessions and bill relief for customers, or policies that deliver ongoing reductions in energy costs for customers through deployment of CER or home and appliance upgrades.
- Provision of durable, accessible tax deductions and access to funding to businesses for items that will improve energy performance and enable decarbonisation.
- Policies that lower financial barriers to access and support customers experiencing vulnerability and other customers who may have challenges with electrifying (e.g. renters).

We support:
- Climate and energy policy stability, to drive innovation and productivity, and promote confidence in new investment in renewable generation and firming (including gas-powered generation and long-duration storage).
- Market reforms to recognise and value all the new services the future renewable, reliable and affordable electricity system needs, in particular the provision of essential system services and longduration firming. This includes gaspowered generation as a firming technology to provide grid security and reliability through the energy transition, including through renewable droughts.
- Market based incentives for lowemissions generation to meet government objectives to accelerate the energy transition (e.g. through certificatebased schemes).
- Incentives and other support that deliver efficient coordination and integration of CER resources in the electricity market and provide the right signals to invest.
- Policy settings and support that manage the impacts of declining gas supply, including supply side measures (LNG import projects located close to customers and leveraging existing pipeline and storage, appropriate development of new domestic supplies) and demand side measures which support customers to reduce gas consumption through electrification.
- Incentives, frameworks, targets, and institutions (like ARENA and CEFC) to support the development, commercialisation and scaling of technologies to enable the energy transition, such as hydrogen, pumped hydro and offshore wind, as well as development and commercialisation of negative emission technologies such as carbon capture and storage.

We support:
- Streamlining and fast-tracking arrangements for robust regulatory, planning, environmental, and connections approvals for grid-scale assets and at commercial and industrial sites.
- Improved system planning and certainty regarding transmission developments and renewable energy zones.
- Nature-positive and balanced environment reform that provides greater certainty on the approval trajectory for new
infrastructure developments.
- Transparent and consistent benchmarks and guidelines for consultation, compensation and benefit sharing for
landowners and communities (including First Nations communities).
- Combined government and industry engagement with communities to build increased awareness and acceptance of new energy projects to continue to build social licence.

We support:
- Australia’s commitment to the Paris Agreement, and economy-wide ambition to limit temperature increase to 1.5 degrees. We acknowledge the role of the electricity sector in electrifying
other sectors, but also the practical limits of what Australia’s energy sector can contribute while keeping energy reliable and affordable for all customers. We support the pursuit of a level playing field such that regulatory and policy frameworks support organisations with credible transition plans.
- Policies that deliver a long-term plan for achieving net zero for the energy sector, and steps to provide greater certainty regarding closure dates for the NEM’s thermal generators to support an orderly energy transition and the timely development of replacement generation.
- Ambition, policy frameworks, and mechanisms for emissions reductions in other sectors, including the operation of the Safeguard Mechanism and the development of new low-emissions industries, to increase contributions to economy-wide emissions reduction.
- Robust carbon markets that deliver high quality offsets, through frameworks with credible offset standards that increase confidence in claimed reductions. Emission reduction approaches that include reliance on carbon offsets should be guided by a holistic approach that aligns with the mitigation hierarchy.
- Coordinated action and governmentsupport to address workforce transition and the creation of new industries.