The ‘Connection Point Dispatch (CPD) Price’ was a metric we first used in 2019:
(a) referring to it as a Connection Point Dispatch (CPD) Price, to help avoid confusion with the more internationally used term ‘nodal price’.
(b) But from mid-2025 we have started the process of migrating to the use of the term ‘Local Price’ to adopt the same terminology that is used by the AEMO.
There are collections of articles written and …
(a) tagged with ‘CPD Price’ (i.e. a longer, and longer-dated list) or
(b) tagged just with ‘Local Price’ (there may not be many here, with the tag above having preference).
On 1st August 2024 the AEMO approved for distribution version 5 of the document 'Guide to Mis-Pricing Information' with reference to the IESS go-live on 3rd June 2024. Hence the date of this article...