Charges


Market Support Service Charges

The Market Support Services charges, which is payable to SP Services, is to recover the cost of services such as meter reading and data management provided by SP Services, as the Market Support Services Licensee.

Refer to the schedules of Market Support Service charges for contestable consumers with:


Transmission Service Rate for Use-of-System Charges

The Use-of-System charges, which is payable to SP PowerAssets, is to recover the cost of transporting electricity through the national power grid. Note that the charges differ according to the voltage at which a consumer receives the electricity supply. View the schedule of Use-of-System charges.


Transmission Loss Factors

Transmission Loss Factors are scaling factors applied at the metering point to account for network and transformer losses.

Refer to table below for the transmission loss factors for the respective loads. The factors are derived using the methodology approved by the Energy Market Authority.

LoadTransmission Loss
Factors effective
Transmission Loss
Factors effective
Transmission Loss
Factors effective
230kV/400kV
66kV
22kV
6.6kV
230V