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VIC: SP AusNet Distribution Network

VIC: SP AusNet Distribution Network

The SP AusNet Gas Distribution Network is owned by SP Australia Networks (Distribution) Pty Ltd which is part of the SP AusNet group. The service provider of the SP AusNet network is SPI Networks (Gas) Pty Ltd.

The SP AusNet network (formerly known as the Westar distribution network) was formed in 1997, when the Victorian government restructured the state’s gas industry from the government owned monopoly (Gas and Fuel Corporation) into separate transmission, distribution and retail businesses. These new businesses were sold to the private sector in 1999. TXU purchased the Westar network in 1999 and renamed it TXU (Networks) Gas. In 2004, SP Energy (a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Power) acquired TXU’s Australian assets which included TXU (Networks) Gas.

The SP AusNet network covers an area of 60,000 km²and serves more than 620,000 customers in outer western metropolitan Melbourne and central and western areas of Victoria. It consists of approximately 10,000km of pipelines.

The SP AusNet network was initially subject to regulation as a covered pipeline under the Gas Code by the Essential Services Commission of Victoria (ESC) which was formerly the Office of the Regulator General, Victoria (ORG).

In enacting the National Gas Law and Rules, the National Gas (Victoria) Act 2008 specifies that access arrangements cannot be consolidated for any of the covered pipelines in Victoria (s. 35). In addition, under the National Gas (Victoria) Act 2008, the Victorian Minister has by order published in the Victorian Government Gazette (S222, 30 June 2009) declared that the four distribution pipelines and the transmission pipeline that had been covered under the Gas Code are classified as ‘designated pipelines’. These are the SP AusNet, Envestra (Vic), Multinet and Envestra (Albury) gas distribution networks and the Victorian Transmission System. As a result, these pipelines remain under full regulation and cannot be the subject of a light regulation determination (under ss. 109 and 111 of the NGL).

The SP AusNet Distribution Network is subject to full regulation by the AER under the NGR.

Title	Date	Type	Year
		Current access arrangement
Access arrangement, Part A	2017-02-21	Current access arrangement	2017
Access arrangement, Part B	2017-02-21	Current access arrangement	2017
Access arrangement, Part C	2017-02-21	Current access arrangement	2017
Access arrangement (part A) approved by the ESC	2008-05-19	Previous access arrangement	2008
Access arrangement (part B) approved by the ESC	2008-05-19	Previous access arrangement	2008
Access arrangement (part C) approved by the ESC	2008-05-19	Previous access arrangement	2008
Access arrangement approved by the ESC	2002-11-15	Previous access arrangement	2002
Access arrangement approved by the ORG	1998-11-30	Previous access arrangement	1998
Access arrangement information approved by the ORG	1998-11-30	Previous access arrangement	1998
Access arrangement (part A) approved by the AER	2013-04-29	Previous access arrangement	2013
Access arrangement (part B) approved by the AER	2013-04-29	Previous access arrangement	2013
Access arrangement (part C) approved by the AER	2013-04-29	Previous access arrangement	2013
Access arrangement information approved by the AER	2013-04-29	Previous access arrangement	2013
SP AusNet Network pipeline description	2017-02-24	Pipeline description	2017

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