Electricity and Other Legislation (Batteries and Premium Feed-in Tariff) Amendment Bill 2018 (Qld)

An Act to amend the Electricity Act 1994, the Energy and Water Ombudsman Act 2006, the National Energy Retail Law (Queensland) Act 2014 and the Queen's Wharf Brisbane Act 2016 for particular purposes The Parliament of Queensland enacts—

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Electricity and Other Legislation (Batteries and Premium Feed-in Tariff) Amendment Act 2018.

2 Commencement Part 2, other than sections 4 and 7, is taken to have commenced on the day the Bill for this Act was introduced into the Legislative Assembly.

Part 2 Amendment of Electricity Act 1994

3 Act amended This part amends the Electricity Act 1994.

4 Amendment of s 23 (Customers and their types) (1) Section 23(2)— omit. (2) Section 23(3) to (5)— renumber as section 23(2) to (4).

5 Amendment of s 44A (Additional condition to allow credit for electricity produced by small photovoltaic generators) (1) Section 44A(1)(a), 'a premises'— omit, insert— premises (2) Section 44A(1)(b)(i), 'authority's'— omit, insert— entity's (3) Section 44A— insert— (1A) However, the condition mentioned in subsection (1)(b) stops applying in relation to a qualifying customer if— (a) the maximum output of the component of the customer's qualifying generator that generates electricity exceeds, in aggregate, the approved total rated inverter capacity of the generator; or (b) the customer installs an electricity storage device, as part of the electrical installation supplied by the customer's qualifying generator, in a way that enables the device to supply electricity to— (i) the electrical installation at the same time as the qualifying generator, other than during a supply interruption; or (ii) the distribution entity's supply network; or (c) the customer installs 1 or more generators (each an additional generator) as part of the electrical installation supplied by the customer's qualifying generator in a way that enables the additional generator to supply electricity to— (i) the electrical installation at the same time as the qualifying generator, other than during a supply interruption; or (ii) the distribution entity's supply network. (1B) If, because of the operation of subsection (1A), a qualifying customer stops being entitled to be credited with a prescribed credit amount under subsection (1)(b), that subsection no longer applies to the distribution entity in relation to that customer. (4) Section 44A— insert— (6) In this section— approved total rated inverter capacity, of a customer's qualifying generator, means the total rated inverter capacity of the generator approved by the distribution entity for the purposes of complying with the condition mentioned in subsection (1)(b). electricity storage device means a device capable of storing energy and releasing the energy as electricity. supply interruption means an interruption in the supply, by a distribution entity through the entity's supply network, of electricity to a qualifying customer's electrical installation.