Please find below our cross-submission on some key common themes from submitters on Consultation paper - Requiring distributors to pay a rebate when consumers export electricity at peak times. These are the points where we feel particularly compelled to comment. We have included some specific quotes from submissions, but certainly not all relevant quotes.

As an overarching comment, some submissions included significant statements as if they were fact with no backing evidence. Several even noted they are aware of evidence of certain things, yet don’t provide this evidence or point to where it can be found. We recommend that the Task Force track down such evidence and confirm you are confident in this before taking any decisions based on it.

The submission focusses on the following:

1. It is good to see consumers getting their voices heard

2. Concerns of wealth transfers

3. Obsession with aggregators and control

4. Claims that batteries can’t reduce any network costs

5. Location based value and low visibility of LV network

6. Failing to undertake good consumption tariff design as excuse

7. Concerns about timelines

8. Concerns consumers with batteries will themselves be disadvantaged by SETs

9. Correcting a few incorrect assumptions

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