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South Australia
Electricity (Feed-in Pricing) Amendment
Bill 2017
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Electricity
Act 1996
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Electricity
Act 1996
3Amendment of section 35A—Price regulation
by Commission
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Electricity (Feed-in Pricing) Amendment
Act 2017.
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
3—Amendment
of section 35A—Price regulation by Commission
Section 35A(2a)—delete subsection (2a) and substitute:
(2a) In addition to the
requirements of section 25(4) of the
Essential
Services Commission Act 2002
, the Commission must, in acting under subsection (1)(ba), have regard
to—
(a) the fair and reasonable value to a retailer of electricity fed into
the network by qualifying customers within the meaning of Division 3AB;
and
(b) prices of electricity in the wholesale electricity market;
and
(c) any distribution and transmission losses avoided in South Australia by
the supply of small renewable energy generation electricity; and
(d) the following
avoided costs—
(i) the avoided social cost of carbon;
(ii) the avoided human health costs attributable to a reduction in air
pollution.
(2b) For the purposes
of
subsection (2a)(d)
, the Governor may, by notice in the Gazette, specify a methodology or
factor for the determination of—
(a) the avoided social cost of carbon; or
(b) the avoided human health costs attributable to a reduction in air
pollution.
(2c) The Governor may, by subsequent notice in the Gazette, vary or revoke
a notice under
subsection (2b)
.