Application

Applying to connect to the NEM

After completing a Connection Enquiry, applicants can either undertake optional pre-application activities or proceed directly to a formal Application.

If proceeding to Application, the Connection Application should submit the application and any supporting information requested to the relevant Network Service Provider (NSP), including proposed performance standards.

The connecting NSP will then perform connection studies and will forward some of the information and the proposed performance standards to AEMO.

AEMO reviews and negotiates performance standards with the applicant and NSP. Once agreed, these become the facility’s agreed performance standards.

In support of an application to connect, AEMO will typically require:

• Proposed performance standards – completed Performance Standards template (see Documents checklist below for templates relating to your connection type).
• Installation description, including data required under Schedules 5.4 and 5.5 of the National Electricity Rules (Rules).
• Model package, including simulation models and associated design data (see AEMO’s Modelling requirements page for more details on the data and model packages required).

Proposed performance standards must align with the access standards in the relevant Chapter 5 schedules of the Rules.

If AEMO’s technical information requirements are not met, the application is incomplete and cannot be processed. The connecting NSP will advise the applicant of any additional information required.

This stage is complete when AEMO notifies the NSP that performance standards (and any system strength remediation scheme) are agreed (Rules clauses 5.3.4A and 5.3.4B).