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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 2009
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Electricity Act 1996.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Electricity
Act 1996
4 Amendment of section
36AC—Interpretation
5 Amendment of section 36AD—Feeding-in of
electricity to networks by domestic customers
Schedule 1—Transitional
provision
1 Transitional provision
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Electricity (Renewable Energy Price)
Amendment Act 2009.
(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.