Under the proposed ACCC reshuffle, the current executive director of the National Competition Council, Ed Willet, would assume special responsibility for the energy sector. However, the ACCC will still retain the services of major energy manager, Joe Dimasi.
Earlier this year, the ACCC's commissioner overseeing energy, Rod Shogren, left the competition regulator to join the forecasting group, Access Economics.
More recently, the head of the regulator's gas group, Kanwaljit Kaur, and the head of its electricity group, Michael Rawstron, are believed to have transferred to Federal Treasury.
The Federal Government will next month receive the Parer report on national energy reform, which is expected to spark a regulatory tug-of-war between the Commonwealth and the states.
