South Australian Consolidated Regulations South Australian Consolidated Regulations8AC—Prescribed information in small customer accounts for purposes of
section 26A(2)(da) of Act
For the purposes of section 26A(2)(da) of the Act, the following provisions
apply:
(a) the
gas entity must include in each account for charges sent to a small customer
for gas supply through a particular metered delivery point the following
information:
(i)
the customer's average daily consumption level, expressed
in megajoules, of gas supplied through the delivery point for the period to
which the account relates;
(ii)
the customer's average daily consumption level, expressed
in megajoules, of gas supplied through the delivery point for each period
during the preceding 12 months in respect of which the customer was sent by
the entity an account for gas supply through the delivery point;
(iii)
the average daily cost to the customer of gas supplied to
the customer through the delivery point during the period to which the account
relates;
(iv)
the amount of greenhouse gas emissions associated with
the customer's consumption of gas supplied through the delivery point for the
period to which the account relates;
(v)
the amount of greenhouse gas emissions associated with
the customer's consumption of gas supplied through the delivery point for each
period during the preceding 12 months in respect of which the customer was
sent by the entity an account for gas supply through the delivery point;
(b) the
information referred to in paragraphs (a)(ii) and (a)(v) must be
presented in graphical form;
(c) the
amounts of the greenhouse gas emissions referred to in paragraphs (a)(iv)
and (a)(v) must be calculated, in a manner approved by the Commission, by
reference to material about emissions coefficients published by the Australian
Greenhouse Office of the Department of the Environment and Heritage of the
Australian Government;
(d) the
information referred to in paragraph (a) must be accompanied by
explanatory material of a kind approved by the Commission;
(e) the
information and explanatory material referred to in paragraphs (a) and
(d) must be presented in a print size and format approved by the Commission;
(f) the
gas entity must also include in each account for gas charges sent to a small
customer the following statement:
For more information about energy efficiency and to compare energy retail
prices, visit www.escosa.sa.gov.au or call ........................ [telephone
number as specified by the Commission by written notice to the entity];
(g) the
statement referred to in paragraph (f) must be presented in the first
page of each account in 9 point bold font.