Title: Electricity (Renewable Energy) AmendmentBill 2010
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: parliamentary.copy
Document comments: lc30

Legislative Council—No 30
As introduced and read a first time, 21 July 2010

Electricity (Renewable Energy) Amendment Bill 2010

Electricity (Renewable Energy) Amendment Bill 2010
Part 1—Preliminary

Electricity (Renewable Energy) Amendment Bill 2010
Preliminary—Part 1

Electricity (Renewable Energy) Amendment Bill 2010
Part 2—Amendment of Electricity Act 1996

Electricity (Renewable Energy) Amendment Bill 2010
Amendment of Electricity Act 1996—Part 2

Electricity (Renewable Energy) Amendment Bill 2010
Schedule 1—Transitional provision

Electricity (Renewable Energy) Amendment Bill 2010
Transitional provision—Schedule 1

South Australia
Electricity (Renewable Energy) Amendment Bill 2010
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
6	Amendment of section 36AE—Expiry of scheme
Schedule 1—Transitional provision
1	Transitional provision

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Electricity (Renewable Energy) Amendment Act 2010.
2—Commencement
This Act will come into operation on 1 January 2011.
3—Amendment provisions
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, definition of qualifying generator—delete the definition and substitute:
qualifying generator means—
	(a)	a small photovoltaic generator—
	(i)	that is operated by a qualifying customer; and
	(ii)	that complies with Australian Standard—AS 4777 (as in force from time to time or as substituted from time to time); and
	(iii)	that is connected to a distribution network in a manner that allows electricity generated by the small photovoltaic generator to be fed into the network; or
	(b)	a wind turbine generator—
	(i)	that is operated by a qualifying customer; and
	(ii)	that complies with any standard prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition; and
	(iii)	that is connected to a distribution network in a manner that allows electricity generated by the wind turbine generator to be fed into the network; or
	(c)	any other generator that generates electricity from a renewable energy source—
	(i)	that is operated by a qualifying customer; and
	(ii)	that complies with any standard prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition; and
	(iii)	that is connected to a distribution network in a manner that allows electricity generated by the generator to be fed into the network,
other than where the distribution network is an excluded network;
renewable energy source means any of the following:
	(a)	solar;
	(b)	wind;
	(c)	any other source brought within the ambit of this definition by the Minister by notice published in the Gazette;
5—Amendment of section 36AD—Feeding‑in of electricity to networks by domestic customers
	(1)	Section 36AD(1)(b)—delete paragraph (b) and substitute:
	(b)	credit against the charges payable by the qualifying customer for the supply of electricity to the qualifying customer the amount of $0.50 per kWh for any electricity generated by the qualifying generator of the qualifying customer (after taking into account the operation of subsections (2), (3) and (4)); and
	(2)	Section 36AD(2)(b)(i)—delete "fed into the distribution network by" and substitute:
generated by the qualifying generator of 
	(3)	Section 36AD(2)(b)(ii)—delete "fed into the distribution network" and substitute:
generated by the qualifying generator
	(4)	Section 36AD(3)—delete "fed into the distribution network" and substitute:
generated by the qualifying generator of the qualifying customer 
6—Amendment of section 36AE—Expiry of scheme
Section 36AE—delete "fed into a distribution network" and substitute:
generated

Schedule 1—Transitional provision
1—Transitional provision
The amendments made by this Act will apply to electricity generated by a qualifying generator under section 36AC of the Electricity Act 1996 after the commencement of this Act.

LC GP 076-B: the Hon Mark Parnell MLC