Becoming an energy retailer?
You want the team that does this every week.
Around three quarters of the retail authorisation applications lodged with the AER over three consecutive years were prepared by Compliance Quarter, with a 100% success rate. We scope your application, build it, and manage the regulator relationship through to approval.
AER and ESC applications · Electricity and gas · All Australian jurisdictions
Authorisation and licensing done properly, once
An authorisation application is an exercise in demonstrating organisational, technical and financial capacity. Weak applications stall in rounds of regulator questions.
We prepare AER retailer authorisations (electricity and gas) and Essential Services Commission licence applications for Victoria, along with variations, transfers and surrender. Because we prepare more of these applications than anyone else, we know what the regulators expect to see, the questions they ask, and how to answer them the first time.
- AER retailer authorisation: electricity, gas or both, with capacity evidence built to the AER’s guideline
- Victorian licences: ESC electricity and gas licence applications and exemptions
- Capacity documents: compliance plans, policies and forecasts the regulator will test
- Regulator engagement: we draft responses to every information request through to approval
- Post-approval setup: obligations register, reporting calendar and market entry support
How an application runs
Scope and strategy
We assess your model, jurisdictions and timing, confirm the right pathway, and give you a clear scope and agreed fee before any work starts.
Build the application
We draft the application and the capacity evidence behind it: organisational structure, compliance framework, technical arrangements and financial forecasts.
Regulator to approval
We lodge, manage every regulator query and information request, and stay on it until the authorisation or licence is granted.
What clients say
“Compliance Quarter have been invaluable in assisting us to set up our retailing business, and in guiding the company to meet its compliance and retail reporting obligations. The CQ team have great insight and in-depth of knowledge to the Australian retailing landscape.”
“Compliance Quarter has helped us navigate our business through the highly regulated energy landscape time and time again. I don’t know what I would do without them. Thanks for all your help.”
Tell us what you’re building.
We’ll map the pathway and the timeline.
Describe your business model and target jurisdictions. A specialist will come back to you with the right pathway, realistic timing and a scoped fee, usually within one business day.
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