Electricity Supply Industry (Network Planning Requirements) Regulations 2018 (Tas)

Electricity Supply Industry (Network Planning Requirements) Regulations 2018

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Electricity Supply Industry Act 1995 .

23 January 2018

C. WARNER

Governor

By Her Excellency's Command,

GUY BARNETT

Minister for Energy

1. Short title These regulations may be cited as the Electricity Supply Industry (Network Planning Requirements) Regulations 2018 .

2. Commencement These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.

3. Interpretation (1) In these regulations – affected customer, in relation to – (a) a proposed augmentation of a part of a Provider's relevant transmission system; or (b) an exempted augmentation – means a customer, of the Provider, who receives from the Provider a prescribed transmission service that would not be likely to meet the service standards set out in regulation 5 if the proposed augmentation were not to proceed or if the exempted augmentation ceased to be an exempted augmentation; APR means a Transmission Annual Planning Report of a Provider that is published by the Provider; Australian CPI number, for a particular quarter in a financial year, means the Consumer Price Index, weighted average of eight capital cities for that quarter, published by the Australian Statistician under the authority of the Census and Statistics Act 1905 of the Commonwealth; CPI increase since 2013, for a particular financial year, means the ratio of the average of the Australian CPI number, for each of the 4 quarters of that financial year, to the average of the Australian CPI number for each of the 4 quarters of the 2012-2013 financial year; exempted augmentation means an augmentation to which regulation 8(4) applies; power system planning means carrying out studies involved in the development of a technically and economically sound system of electricity supply; Provider means a Transmission Network Service Provider; publication date, in respect of an APR, means the day on which the APR is published by a Provider; published means published as required by the National Electricity Rules; relevant transmission system means the parts, of a transmission system, used to provide prescribed transmission services. (2) Unless the contrary intention appears, an expression used in these regulations that is defined in the National Electricity Rules has the same meaning in these regulations as in those rules.