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What is happening?
The Essential Energy Connections virtual forum was held on 6 November 2025, click here to view the supporting slide deck.
What do you need to do?
Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.
Further Information
If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.
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You cannot leave comment in this blogpost unless you are a part of the project panel.
What is happening?
Essential Energy will be hosting an opt-in support session for Level 2 ASPs and Electrical Contractors with questions relating to the Essential Connections Portal. The session will run for 1 hour – please drop in anytime, you can ask a quick question or stay as long as you choose.
The opt-in support session will be held on Tuesday 11 November at 8 am to 9 am - please click here to register.
What do you need to do?
- Ensure you are registered to attend the support sessions.
- Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.
Further Information
If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.
You cannot leave comment in this blogpost unless you are a part of the project panel.
What is happening?
Essential Energy will be hosting an opt-in support session for Level 2 ASPs and Electrical Contractors with questions relating to the Essential Connections Portal. The session will run for 1 hour – please drop in anytime, you can ask a quick question or stay as long as you choose.
The opt-in support session will be held on Tuesday 11 November at 8 am to 9 am - please click here to register.
What do you need to do?
- Ensure you are registered to attend the support sessions.
- Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.
Further Information
If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.
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What is happening?
The Essential Connection Information Session with Level 2 ASPs and Electrical Contractors was held on 14 October 2025. To view the slide deck, click here and the recording click here.
What do you need to do?
Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.
Further Information
If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.
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What is happening?
A new version of the CEOP2015 Contestable Works Guidelines, Terms and Conditions for Contestable Works, Issue 14 dated October 2025, is now available in the Document Library. This update incorporates the release of the Level 3 ASP Authorisation Framework, as well as amendments and updates based on feedback from ASPs and internal stakeholders.
Please refer to Section 7.0 Revisions for a summary of changes, noting that the document has been reviewed in full and updated to enhance clarity and to reflect current processes.
While many suggestions have been incorporated, some recommendations from ASPs and internal reviewers could not be included in this version. These items have been logged for further exploration and any agreed-upon or approved revisions will be included in the next update.
What do you need to do?
- Download the latest version of CEOP2015 from the Document Library.
- Review the document in its entirety.
- Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.
For further information
If you need further information, please email techconnect@essentialenergy.com.au.
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What is happening?
Essential Energy’s Biannual Connections forum will be held on Thursday 6 November 2025 via Microsoft Teams. In this round, we’ll be covering a range of topics including:
- Safety
- Network defects
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Underground standards
- Cable joint quality of workmanship
- CEOM7098 Underground Design Manual Update
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Public light products
- Supply issues and alternatives on the Approved Materials List
- Introducing smart lighting products
- Changes to the Contestable Network Solutions team
- Update on Crown Lands
- Underground Design in NEARA
- Update on Level 3 Authorisation agreement
- Update from the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
- Ask us anything Q&A session.
We encourage you to participate in this forum. You’ll have the opportunity to discuss our plans and initiatives, and to ask questions or raise issues with Essential Energy team members This includes time allocated for you to ask us anything.
To help us better respond to your questions on the day, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au with the topics or issues you would like addressed.
Note: this is a live session, and a recording will not be shared.
Registration
The forum will be held on Thursday 6 November 2025 from 10.00am to 1.00 pm – please click here to register.
What do you need to do?
- Click on register to reserve your spot.
- Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.
Further Information
If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.
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What is Happening?
Effective immediately Essential Energy will be increasing the time taken to review Level 2 Accredited Services Providers basic non-standard design approval, from 30 minutes to 1 hour, this reflects the work being undertaken to review these requests.
This means a basic non-standard design approval will be subject to a 1 hour fee at the labour class of R2a normal time as per the Price Schedule for Ancillary Network Services section 1.5 Non-standard design approval, available on our website.
Note: Essential Energy reserves the right to waive fees at our discretion.
What do you need to do?
Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.
Further Information
If you need further information, please email techconnect@essentialenergy.com.au.
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What is Happening?
To minimise disruption to customers during the Christmas / New Year period, we’ll cease scheduling planned outages with a customer impact from 19 December 2025 until 4 January 2026.
Our Contestable Works office will also be closed from 19 December 2025, with business resuming as normal from 5 January 2026. During this period, minimal Essential Connections Portal cases/enquires/emails/documentation or Asset Labels will be processed.
What do you need to do?
- Review your planned interruption schedule for the dates above and work with your nominated Local Depot Switching Resource to reschedule where required.
- Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.
Further Information
If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.
You cannot leave comment in this blogpost unless you are a part of the project panel.
What is happening?
Essential Energy will be hosting an opt-in support session for Level 2 ASPs and Electrical Contractors with questions relating to the Essential Connections Portal. The session will run for 1 hour – please drop in anytime, you can ask a quick question or stay as long as you choose.
The opt-in support session will be held on Tuesday 14 October at 8 am to 9 am - please click here to register.
What do you need to do?
- Ensure you are registered to attend the support sessions.
- Communicate this information to relevant members of your organisation.
Further Information
If you need further information, please email aspinfo@essentialenergy.com.au.
Information Session October 2025 (1.28 MB) (pdf)
