The Business-to-Business Working Group (B2B-WG) has been established by the Information Exchange Committee (IEC) to provide advice to the IEC on issues and opportunities relating to the B2B framework, Procedures and Guide and to develop changes to these where necessary on behalf of the IEC.
The B2B-WG is distinct from the Power of Choice Business-to-Business Working Group (POCB2B-WG), which was created to oversee B2B changes for the Power of Choice reforms and has since been disbanded.
Terms of reference
- B2B-WG Terms of Reference – 6 February 2019 (207 KB, pdf)
Membership
The B2B-WG consists of five members which represent each of the B2B participant categories: namely, distributors, metering business, and retailers. AEMO provides secretariat services to the B2B-WG. A full list of current B2B-WG members is published below.
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Distribution members |
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Justin Betlehem |
AusNet Services |
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Adrian Honey |
TasNetworks |
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Robert Mitchell |
Energy Queensland |
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Dino Ou |
Endeavour Energy |
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David Woods |
SA Power Networks |
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Metering members |
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Robert Lo Giudice |
intelliHub |
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Wayne Farrell |
Metering Dynamics |
Waynefarrell@meteringdynamics.com.au |
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Helen Vassos |
PLUS ES |
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Paul Greenwood |
Vector AMS |
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Retailer members |
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Mark Riley |
AGL Energy |
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Joe Castellano |
Origin Energy |
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Aakash Sembley |
Simply Energy |
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Stephanie Lomni |
Alinta Energy |
Stephanie.Lomni@alintaenergy.com.au |
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Christophe Bechia |
Red and Lumo Energy |
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Dates of upcoming meetings
B2B-WG meetings are held as required; as such, the below dates are tentative only:
- Tuesday 14 July 2020
- Thursday 6 August 2020
- Tuesday 1 September 2020
- Thursday 24 September 2020
- Friday 13 November 2020
- Tuesday 1 December 2020
Issue / Change Form
Participants who want to identify a prospective change to B2B Procedures should submit an Issue / Change Form (ICF) to iec@aemo.com.au using the template below.
- B2B ICF template (74 KB, docx)
Deferred Power of Choice transactions
During the implementation of Power of Choice (PoC) project, 51 potential transactions that were not considered at the time to be a high-priority were deferred for later review. The Information Exchange Committee, in conjunction with its Business-to-Business Working Group, has now finalised its review of these deferred potential transactions.
Of the 51 items reviewed:
- Ten items have been incorporated into a consultation package on B2B Procedures
that will commence in late 2019. - Nineteen items are adequately addressed by existing transactions and require no
additional actions and have been closed. - Seven potential transactions do not have sufficient volumes to merit progressing at
this time. These will be monitored by the B2B-WG on an annual basis, commencing
in late 2020. - Two potential transactions are dependant on changes to standing data and will be
included on a B2B change register to be considered when AEMO reviews its standing
data. - Three of the potential changes relate to MSATS rather than B2B. These transactions
will be addressed by the Australian Energy Market Commissions’s proposed changes
to embedded networks or have been referred to AEMO for consideration. - Ten of the proposed transactions were not within the remit of B2B Procedures or the
B2B Guide, but rather should be the subject of bilateral commercial agreements
between specific participants, or jurisdictions. These potential transactions have been
closed.
The full list of transactions can be found below:
- B2B Post-PoC transaction review (41 KB, xlsx)
For further information on this review, please contact the Business-to-Business Working Group at b2bwg@aemo.com.au.