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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
Electricity (Renewable Energy Price) Amendment
Bill 2010
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Electricity
Act 1996.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Commencement
3Amendment
provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Electricity
Act 1996
4Amendment of section
36AC—Interpretation
5Amendment of section 36AD—Feeding-in of
electricity to networks by domestic customers
Schedule 1—Transitional
provision
1Transitional provision
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Electricity (Renewable Energy Price)
Amendment Act 2010.
(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
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 default contract price (GST exclusive) applying to the relevant
electricity entity under section 36AB for small customers who consume
electricity for domestic light or power at the lowest rate per day
(expressed as cents per kWh); plus
(b) $0.44 per kWh;
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(1)(b)—after "under paragraph (a)" insert:
(being the renewable energy price applying at the time that the electricity
is fed into the network)
(3) 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.