South Australian Consolidated Regulations

ELECTRICITY (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 1997 - REG 31D

31D—Safety, reliability, maintenance and technical management reports

        (1)         A person to whom this Division applies who operates a transmission or distribution network must, within 21 working days after the end of each month, lodge with the Technical Regulator a report—

            (a)         stating in relation to each unplanned interruption to the supply of electricity during that month that—

                  (i)         affected the supply of electricity to customers such that the aggregate of the periods for which the customers' supply was affected exceeded 120 000 minutes; or

                  (ii)         affected for 30 minutes or more the supply of electricity to one or more customers with a demand of greater than 1 MVA,

the following:

                  (iii)         the date, time and cause of the interruption;

                  (iv)         the number of customers affected by the interruption;

                  (v)         the time taken to restore supply to all of the customers affected;

                  (vi)         the time taken to restore supply to the majority of the customers affected;

            (b)         stating in relation to all unplanned interruptions to the supply of electricity during that month and in relation to each region as defined by the Technical Regulator—

                  (i)         the aggregate of the periods for which customers' supply was affected by the interruptions; and

                  (ii)         the average time taken to restore supply to all of the customers affected.

        (2)         Subregulation (1) does not apply in relation to—

            (a)         an interruption to the supply of electricity to a customer if the interruption was in accordance with an interruptible or curtailable supply contract with the customer; or

            (b)         an interruption to the supply of electricity to a customer that occurred at the request of the customer or that was caused by the customer; or

            (c)         an interruption that was rectified by an automatic supply restoration operation.

        (3)         A person to whom this Division applies must, on or before 31 August in each year, lodge with the Technical Regulator a report relating to the previous financial year containing the following information:

            (a)         a general description of the circumstances in which electricity infrastructure owned or operated by the person has failed or malfunctioned or been found to be unsafe and of the action taken to rectify, or to prevent or minimise the risk or recurrence of, the failure, malfunction or unsafe situation;

            (b)         the total costs actually incurred to maintain, repair and replace electricity infrastructure owned or operated by the person, together with an estimate of the total costs likely to be incurred for those purposes in the financial year following that to which the report relates;

            (c)         whether the person has been able to comply with all aspects of the person's safety, reliability, maintenance and technical management plan and whether the person considers the plan to have been operating effectively.

        (4)         However, this regulation only applies to a person who is exempted from the requirement to hold a licence to the extent specified by the Technical Regulator by notice in writing to the person.