Electricity Supply Industry Amendment Regulations 2004
I, the Lieutenant-Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Electricity Supply Industry Act 1995 .
1 November 2004W. J. E. COX
Lieutenant-Governor
By His Excellency's Command,
P. A. LENNON
Treasurer
These regulations may be cited as the Electricity Supply Industry Amendment Regulations 2004 .
These regulations take effect on the day after the day on or during which section 36 of the Electricity Supply Industry Amendment Act 2003 commences.
In these regulations, the Electricity Supply Industry Regulations 1996 are referred to as the Principal Regulations.
4. Regulation 3 amended (Interpretation)
Regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations is amended by inserting after the definition of licence the following definition:NEMMCO-registered electricity entity means an electricity entity that is required to be registered with NEMMCO under the National Electricity Code;
5. Regulation 4A inserted
After regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations , the following regulation is inserted:(1) Pursuant to section 22(1)(j) of the Act, the information specified in Schedule 1 is prescribed as the kind of information to be published by the electricity entity in relation to its energy production capability if it is a NEMMCO-registered electricity entity.(2) Pursuant to section 22(1)(c) of the Act –(a) the prescribed information is to be published once a week, no later than 24 hours after the measurement time referred to in Schedule 1 ; and(b) the measurement time is to be the same for each weekly publication, unless the NEMMCO-registered electricity entity and the Regulator agree to another time; and(c) publication of the prescribed information on a website maintained by or on behalf of the NEMMCO-registered electricity entity in a form approved by the Regulator constitutes sufficient publication; and(d) the NEMMCO-registered electricity entity must keep the data from the weekly publications, in chronological order and in a form approved by the Regulator, on that website.(3) Subregulation (2) is not to be taken as preventing the NEMMCO-registered electricity entity from also publishing the prescribed information in other ways.
6. Schedule 1 inserted
After regulation 8 of the Principal Regulations , the following Schedule is inserted:SCHEDULE 1 - Prescribed energy production capability information1. For the hydro-electric power stations that the NEMMCO-registered electricity entity operates under a licence authorising the generation of electricity using hydro-electric generators –(a) the amount of energy in storage in each headwater storage (expressed both in gigawatt hours and as a percentage of maximum storage capacity) as at a fixed time of the week determined by the NEMMCO-registered electricity entity (in this Schedule referred to as "the measurement time"); and(b) whether, in the 24-hour period immediately before the measurement time, the amount of energy in storage in each headwater storage rose, fell or remained static; and(c) the power stations that utilise the water from each headwater storage.2. In item 1 –energy in storage means the amount of energy that can potentially be generated from the volume of water stored in a headwater storage;headwater storage, for a hydro-electric power station, means –(a) if the power station is one of a series of two or more such power stations, the lakes, reservoirs or other water storages that lead into the first such power station in that series; or(b) if the power station is not one of a series of two or more power stations, the lakes, reservoirs or other water storages that lead into that power station.
Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.
Notified in the Gazette on 10 November 2004
These regulations are administered in the Department of Treasury and Finance.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the regulation)
These regulations amend the Electricity Supply Industry Regulations 1996 by prescribing –(a) the kind of information that the holder of a certain electricity generating licence is required to publish in relation to its energy production capability; and(b) requirements that must be complied with in relation to that information and its publication.