Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) For this Act, the following people are benchmark participants :
(a) a retail supplier;
(b) a market customer (other than a retail supplier), but only in relation to an electricity load that the market customer has classified as a market load and that is electricity supplied for use in the ACT;
(c) a large customer who has made an election, that is in force, to be subject to a greenhouse gas benchmark.
(2) A regulation may make provision in relation to the following:
(a) the making of elections to be subject to greenhouse gas benchmarks;
(b) the circumstances in which an election takes effect or ceases to be in force;
(c) the greenhouse penalty payable by a customer or person whose election ceases to be in force;
(d) the circumstances in which a person is taken to be a large customer or a large customer who uses electricity at more than 1 site.
(3) In this section:
"large customer" means a customer (other than a retail supplier) who uses—
(a) 100 gigawatt hours or more of electricity at a single site in the ACT in a year; or
(b) 100 gigawatt hours or more of electricity at 2 or more sites in the ACT in a year, at least 1 of which uses 50 gigawatt hours or more of electricity in the year.