South Australian Current Regulations

GAS REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 21

21—Energy productivity activities—subtargets

        (1)         A retailer must, subject to subregulation (2), undertake energy productivity activities sufficient to achieve each primary subtarget and secondary subtarget applying to the retailer for a year (as adjusted to take into account any shortfall added under subregulation (3)).

        (2)         A retailer will be taken not to have failed to achieve a primary subtarget or secondary subtarget applying to the retailer for a year if the retailer undertakes energy productivity activities in the year sufficient to achieve at least 90% of the primary subtarget or secondary subtarget (as the case requires).

        (3)         Despite subregulation (2)—

            (a)         if a retailer fails to achieve a primary subtarget in a year, the Commission must ensure that the energy productivity shortfall is added—

                  (i)         if an equivalent primary subtarget applies to the retailer in the subsequent year—to that primary subtarget; or

                  (ii)         in any other case—to the EPT that applies to the retailer in a subsequent year; and

            (b)         if a retailer fails to achieve a secondary subtarget in a year, the Commission must ensure that the energy productivity shortfall is added—

                  (i)         if an equivalent secondary subtarget applies to the retailer in the subsequent year—to that secondary subtarget; or

                  (ii)         in any other case—to the EPT that applies to the retailer in a subsequent year.

        (4)         If—

            (a)         a retailer undertakes energy productivity activities in a year sufficient to achieve at least 90% of a primary subtarget or secondary subtarget for that year but does not achieve the primary subtarget or secondary subtarget (as the case requires); and

            (b)         in the subsequent calendar year this Part no longer applies to the retailer as a result of the operation of regulation 16(1),

the retailer must undertake energy productivity activities in the subsequent year to account for its energy productivity shortfall (for the relevant primary subtarget or secondary subtarget) from the previous year.

        (5)         If—

            (a)         a retailer fails to achieve a primary subtarget or secondary subtarget that applies to the retailer for a year; and

            (b)         the retailer—

                  (i)         pays a shortfall penalty in accordance with the requirements of section 91A of the Act with respect to that failure; or

                  (ii)         is subject to a penalty on account of a prosecution in respect of that failure,

the energy productivity shortfall to which the shortfall penalty or prosecution relates will no longer apply to the retailer.

        (6)         In this regulation—

"energy productivity shortfall" means—

            (a)         in the case of a failure by a retailer to achieve a primary subtarget applying to the retailer in a year—the difference between the primary subtarget and the amount of normalised gigajoules actually achieved by that retailer in that year by undertaking energy productivity activities to achieve that primary subtarget; or

            (b)         in the case of a failure by a retailer to achieve a secondary subtarget applying to the retailer in a year—the difference between the secondary subtarget and the amount of normalised gigajoules actually achieved by that retailer in that year by undertaking energy productivity activities to achieve that secondary subtarget.