Program · Outcome 1: Enhanced welfare of Australians through enforcing laws that promote competition and protect consumers, as well as taking other regulatory and related actions including monitoring and market analysis, public education, and determining the terms of access to infrastructure services
Program 1.2: Australian Energy Regulator
The AER exists so that energy consumers are better off, now and in the future. We focus on ensuring a secure, reliable and affordable energy future for Australia as it transitions to net zero emissions. We regulate wholesale and retail energy markets, and energy networks, under national energy legislation and rules. The AER has functions in all states and territories except Western Australia.
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 109 reported
$0
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$112m (−100.0%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $100m | $0 | −$100m −100.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1226 |
| s74 External Revenue | departmental | $5.5m | $0 | −$5.5m −100.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1227 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $5.6m | $0 | −$5.6m −100.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1228 |