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South Australia
Electricity (Feed-In Scheme—Residential Solar
Systems) Amendment Bill 2007
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 Insertion of Part 3 Division 3AB
Division 3AB—Feed-in
mechanisms
36AC Interpretation
36AD Feeding-in
of electricity to networks by domestic
customers
36AE Expiry of scheme
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Electricity (Feed-In
Scheme—Residential Solar Systems) Amendment Act 2007.
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
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—Insertion of
Part 3 Division 3AB
After section 36AB insert:
Division 3AB—Feed-in
mechanisms
36AC—Interpretation
In this Division—
domestic customer means a customer—
(a) who acquires electricity primarily for domestic use; and
(b) who satisfies other criteria (if any) prescribed by the regulations
for the purposes of this definition;
excluded network means a distribution network that supplies
electricity to less than 10 000 domestic customers;
qualifying generator means a small photovoltaic
generator—
(a) that is operated by a domestic customer; and
(b) that complies with Australian Standard—AS 4777 (as in
force from time to time or as substituted from time to time); and
(c) that is connected to a distribution network in a manner that allows
electricity generated by the small photovoltaic generator to be fed into the
network,
other than where the distribution network is an excluded network;
small photovoltaic generator means a photovoltaic system with
capacity up to 10kVA for a single phase connection and up to 30kVA for a three
phase connection.
36AD—Feeding-in of electricity to networks by
domestic customers
(1) It is a condition of a licence authorising the operation of a
distribution network, other than an excluded network, that the holder of the
licence will—
(a) allow a domestic customer to feed into the network electricity
generated by a qualifying generator (subject to complying with any relevant
technical, safety or other requirements imposed by or under this or any other
Act or relevant instrument); and
(b) credit against the charges payable by the domestic customer for the
supply of electricity to the domestic customer the amount of $0.44 per kWh for
any electricity fed into the network under paragraph (a) (after taking into
account the operation of subsections (2), (3) and (4)); and
(c) comply with any reporting requirements imposed by the Minister under
subsection (4).
(2) It is a condition of the licence of the electricity entity that has
the relevant contract to sell electricity as a retailer to a domestic customer
who is entitled to a credit under subsection (1)(b) that the retailer will,
after taking into account any requirements prescribed by the
regulations—
(a) reflect the credit in the charges payable by the domestic customer for
the supply of electricity; and
(b) provide to the domestic customer information relating
to—
(i) the amount of electricity fed into the distribution network by the
domestic customer; and
(ii) the amount to be credited for the benefit of the domestic customer
for electricity fed into the distribution network.
(3) If the whole of an amount to be credited to a domestic customer under
subsection (1)(b) in respect of electricity fed into a distribution network
in a particular billing period has not been set-off against the charges payable
by the domestic consumer for the supply of electricity by the expiration of
12 months after the end of that billing period, the domestic customer is
entitled to the payment of the outstanding balance.
(4) The Minister may, in connection with the operation or administration
of this section—
(a) by notice in the Gazette, impose reporting requirements on the holders
of licences authorising the operation of distribution networks;
(b) by subsequent notice in the Gazette, vary any reporting requirements
previously imposed under this subsection (including by the substitution or
addition of requirements).
36AE—Expiry of scheme
The scheme established by this Division will not apply to electricity fed
into a distribution network after 30 June 2013.