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OFFICIAL

Dear Rex,

Acknowledgment of request for access under the Freedom of Information Act
1982 (Cth)

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) acknowledges
receipt of your web submission of 20 March 2023 requesting, under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth), access to:

‘I am writing to request access to the anonymous dataset referenced by the
Australian Energy Regulator (AER) in their document titled "Residential
Energy Consumption Benchmarks" dated 9 December 2020. Specifically, I am
requesting access to the dataset mentioned in the following quote from the
document:

"The AER will then publish an anonymous dataset with the results of this
project on its website. That dataset can then be used by members of the
public, and by governments and researchers to inform energy policy. To
protect your privacy the information you provide will be aggregated and
de-identified. No individuals or households will be identifiable in the
published dataset."

I request that the dataset be provided to me in a machine-readable format,
such as CSV or Excel.’

Timeframe for processing your request

The ACCC has 30 days to process your request, beginning 20 March 2023.
This timeframe may be extended by the ACCC where consultation with third
parties is necessary.

Charges

If the ACCC decides that you should pay a charge to process your request,
we will notify you of the likely cost of processing your request and your
options if you disagree. The statutory timeframe is placed on hold from
when this is sent to you and resumes at a later time.

We will notify you of any charges in relation to your request as soon as
practicable.

Consultation with third parties

The ACCC may be required to consult with businesses or individuals (third
parties) where you have sought information about those third parties. The
Act grants an extra 30 days processing time for the ACCC to undertake this
consultation. You will be advised if we extend the timeframe to allow
third party consultation.

Decision

A decision maker will assess the documents (if any) to decide if we can
release them, or if they are exempt from release. We will send you the
decision and notify you of your review rights.

We will only release documents once any applicable processing charge is
paid.

If we cannot locate any documents that are covered by the scope of your
request, we will advise you of this and your review rights.

Publication of documents released under FOI

Material released under FOI may be published on our website unless we
consider it unreasonable to do so.

If you have any questions regarding the above, please contact me on
(02) 6243 1244.

Yours sincerely,

Rebecca Fenech (She/Her)
FOI Manager | Corporate Law Unit | Specialist Advice and Services Division
(SASD)

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
Ngunnawal Country
23 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra ACT 2601
GPO Box 3131, Canberra ACT 2601

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OFFICIAL

Dear Rex,

Please find the attached for your consideration.

Kind regards,

Rebecca Fenech (She/Her)
FOI Manager | Corporate Law Unit | Specialist Advice and Services Division
(SASD)

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
Ngunnawal Country
23 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra ACT 2601
GPO Box 3131, Canberra ACT 2601

T 02 6243 1244 
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