National Smart Metering Program

1. Smart metering infrastructure (SMI) functionality specification - completed
2. Home area network (HAN) interface (Function 16) standard evaluation – completed
3. Ministerial Council on Energy (MCE) guidelines advice: in home displays guidelines - completed
4. MCE guidelines advice: HAN access service standards guidelines – no longer required
5. MCE guidelines advice: direct load control in priority appliance guidelines - completed
6. Customer service standards (indicative targets) - transferred to Business Processes & Procedures Working Group
   

1. National Electricity Market (NEM) smart metering processes map (level 1) - completed
2. NEM smart metering processes map (level 2) - completed
3. NEM Procedures change requests - issue change forms (ICFs) - completed
4. NEM Procedures consultation packs – scheduled for end 2011
5. Customer service standards (indicative targets) - to be confirmed (transferred from Business Requirements Working Group; members of the National Energy Consumer Roundtable developed "Consumer Principles for Home Area Networks and Direct Load Control" for submission to the MCE in April 2011)

Regulation Working Group (RWG)

1. SMI regulatory architecture - completed
2. Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) cost recovery review - completed
3. Smart meter National Electricity Rules review - covering chapters 5 and 7 - completed
4. National Electricity Law (NEL) exposure draft - completed
5. National Energy Consumer Framework (NECF) drafts - completed
6. Smart Metering Working Group (SMWG) working paper no. 1 SMI consumer protection issues - removed
7. SMWG working paper no. 2 SMI consumer protection issues – to be confirmed
8. Protocols - communications and data security and load management and network security – to be confirmed
   

1. Pilots and trials 2008 status report - completed
2. Technology acceptance framework - completed
3. Smart metering business case methodology – no longer required
4. Consumer impact reporting framework - completed
5. Business impact reporting framework - completed
6. Smart metering future pilots and trials report – completed
7. Pilots and trials status report June 2010 – completed (version 1.1 of SMI future pilots and trials report)
8. SMI functionality specification validation test plan - completed
9. Pilots and trials status report June 2011 – scheduled for April 2011 (handed over to the Energy Networks Association (ENA) in December 2010)
10. Pilots and trials status report June 2012 – scheduled for April 2012 (handed over to the Energy Networks Association (ENA) in December 2010)
    

Testing Framework Working Group (TFWG)

1. Testing strategy - completed
2. National testing procedures and processes - completed
3. Test plans, test cases and test scripts – estimated July 2012
   

• NSMP vision (PDF; 1 page), approved by the NSSC in December 2008.

NSMP Work Plan

• NSMP Work Plan (PDF; 122 pages; 3,430 kb), approved by the NSSC on 28 November 2008 (comprising NSMP road map, deliverables specification, schedule and program management plan)

NSMP Deliverables Specification

• NSMP deliverables specification, November 2008, (PDF; 22 pages; 534 kb), provides a definition of the NSMP deliverables, mapping these to the NSSC's terms of reference

NSMP Road Map (October 2010)

• NSMP Road Map, 24 Dec 2010, (PDF; 1 page; 70kb), provides a high-level view of program deliverables and timeframes.

NSMP Work Plan - NSMP Program Brief - 28 November 2008

• NSMP Program Brief, (PDF; 42 pages; 783 kb), details inputs and background for the NSMP, including decisions made by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), the Ministerial Council on Energy (MCE) and Standing Council of Officials (SCO).