The 2015-2019 Corporate plan is the second to be produced by the Clean Energy Regulator since the agency’s establishment on 2 April 2012. This Corporate Plan articulates the agency’s purpose and strategic direction over four financial years.
Read our corporate plan online or download
documentasset:Clean Energy Regulator Corporate Plan 2015-19.
Corporate plan table of contents
Our strategic approach
Accelerating carbon abatement for Australia
2015-16 - Consolidating our organisation
Following major changes in climate change laws over the last year,
the agency will focus on getting new and amended schemes operating
effectively. We will build on our whole of agency regulatory capabilities.
Engaged active and compliant clients
- Establish relationships with new industry sectors
- Build awareness and enable clients to self select entry into our schemes
- Pursue the Government’s deregulation agenda
Efficient and effective administration
- Implementthe Safeguard Mechanism and changes to the Renewable Energy Target
- Establish a whole of agency client view and metrics reporting
- Embrace whole of government initiatives to streamline corporate services
A trusted, relevant and expert institution
- Enhance the agency’s capacity to contribute
to policy development
- Enhance our workforce capability to be
effective ‘regulatory officers’
- Build our technical capability in new industry
sectors
Secure and enduring infrastructure
- Develop a culture of over the horizon thinking
- Consolidate and integrate our systems under a more cohesive technology suite
- Align our operations to the digital transformation agenda
2016-17 - Refining our schemes
As our schemes mature, we will focus on maximising their efficiency,
reducing client burden, increasing compliance.
Engaged active and compliant clients
- Further build relationships with our clients and
stakeholders
- Establish more consistent and proactive risk
based compliance
- Seek new ways to reduce client burden
Efficient and effective administration
- Embed new policies as business as usual
- Realise efficiencies from end to end
management of process
- Reinvest into proactive regulatory capabilities
- Implement scheme refinements emerging from reviews and evaluations
A trusted, relevant and expert institution
- Enhance our ability to access, report and
interrogate scheme data
- Deliver value added data products and support
policy evaluation
Secure and enduring infrastructure
- Establish practices to maximise the impact of
our technical capabilities
- Refine our approach to resolving operational
policy problems
- Review the agency’s capacity to change and
readiness to respond to new or enhanced policy
2017-19 - Looking beyond 2020
As we near 2020, enhancements to existing schemes may be needed
to drive future carbon abatement. We will ensure we are ready to
contribute to any new policy design, deliver new schemes, and
align with international efforts.
Engaged active and compliant clients
- Establish streamlined client interaction including highly automated online services across all our schemes
- Enable clients to self assess and manage their participation on line
Efficient and effective administration
- Ensure existing schemes are streamlined so we can focus on future policies to reduce abatement
- Shift agency activity away from managing processes to higher level regulatory oversight
A trusted, relevant and expert institution
- Co-design schemes to support post 2020 targets
- Align our operations to new international agreements and requirements
Secure and enduring infrastructure
- Review the effectiveness or the operation and conduct of our market
- Align our systems, processes and operational policies to new international requirements