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South Australia
Electricity (Feed-In Rates) Amendment
Bill 2008
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Electricity Act 1996.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Electricity
Act 1996
4 Amendment of section
36AC—Interpretation
5 Amendment of section 36AD—Feeding-in of
electricity to networks by domestic customers
Schedule 1—Transitional
provision
1 Transitional provision
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Electricity (Feed-In Rates) Amendment
Act 2008.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act will come into operation on a
day to be fixed by proclamation.
(2) If a provision of this Act has not been brought into operation sooner,
it will, by force of this subsection, come into operation 3 months after
assent.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Electricity
Act 1996
4—Amendment of
section 36AC—Interpretation
(1) Section 36AC—before the definition of excluded
network insert:
base price means, in relation to a qualifying customer who
feeds electricity into a distribution network, the lowest rate per day (GST
exclusive) for the supply of electricity for domestic light and power charged to
the qualifying customer by the electricity entity that has the relevant contract
in connection with the feeding in of that electricity (excluding any fixed
charge relating to the supply of electricity to the qualifying customer's
property);
(2) Section 36AC—after the definition of qualifying
generator insert:
renewable energy price means, in relation to electricity fed
into a distribution network by a qualifying customer—
(a) the base price charged by the relevant electricity entity that has a
contract to sell electricity as a retailer to the qualifying customer when the
electricity is fed into the network by the qualifying customer, less any
adjustments allowed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition;
plus
(b) $0.44 per kWh;
(3) Section 36AC—after its present contents as amended by this
section (now to be designated as subsection (1)) insert:
(2) Before a regulation is made for the purposes of paragraph (a) of the
definition of renewable energy price the Minister
must—
(a) consult with the Commission about any proposed adjustment or
adjustments under that paragraph; and
(b) cause a report on the outcome of that consultation to be prepared and
published in such manner as the Minister thinks fit.
5—Amendment of
section 36AD—Feeding-in of electricity to networks by domestic
customers
(1) Section 36AD(1)(b)—delete "the amount of $0.44 per kWh" and
substitute:
an amount equal to the renewable energy price
(2) Section 36AD—after subsection (4) insert:
(5) Nothing in this section prevents an electricity entity agreeing to pay
to a qualifying customer an amount in excess of the renewable energy price for
electricity fed into a distribution network.
Schedule
1—Transitional provision
The amendments made by this Act will apply to electricity fed into a
distribution network under section 36AC of the Electricity Act 1996
after the commencement of this Act.