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ELECTRICITY SUPPLY ACT 1995 - SECT 97AB
Definitions
97AB Definitions
In this Part:
"abatement certificate" means an abatement certificate created under this
Part, being a transferable abatement certificate or a non-transferable
abatement certificate.
"accredited abatement certificate provider" means a person accredited as an
abatement certificate provider under this Part and whose accreditation is in
force.
"AEMO" means the Australian Energy Market Operator Limited ACN 072 010 327.
"benchmark participant" means a person referred to in section 97BB (1) who is
subject to a greenhouse gas benchmark.
"carbon dioxide equivalent" of greenhouse gas emissions means the mass of
carbon dioxide measured in tonnes that has the same global warming potential
as the gas emissions.
"category A generation" means category A generation, as referred to in the
Emissions Workbook.
"compliance period" means:
(a) for a year occurring before the start of the
final compliance period, the period of one year commencing on 1 January in
that year, or
(b) the final compliance period.
"elective participant" means a benchmark participant referred to in section
97BB (1) (d) or (e).
"electricity sector benchmark" means the electricity sector benchmark referred
to in section 97BC (1) (a).
"Emissions Workbook" means the document entitled Greenhouse Gas Emissions from
Electricity Supplied in NSW: Emissions Workbook published by the Ministry of
Energy and Utilities in October 2000.
"final compliance period" means the period ending on the day immediately
preceding the termination day and commencing on 1 January in the same year as
the termination day.
"greenhouse gas" means carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, a
perfluorocarbon gas or any other gas prescribed by the regulations for the
purposes of this definition.
"greenhouse gas benchmark" for a benchmark participant means the benchmark for
a compliance period, in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas
emissions, determined for the participant under this Part.
"greenhouse gas benchmark rule" means a rule approved under section 97K.
"greenhouse penalty" means the penalty payable under this Part by a
benchmark participant who fails to comply with the participant’s
greenhouse gas benchmark for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
"greenhouse shortfall" means the amount, in tonnes of
carbon dioxide equivalent, by which a benchmark participant fails to comply
with the participant’s greenhouse gas benchmark for a compliance period, as
determined under this Part.
"large customer" means: (a) a customer (other than a retail supplier) that on
its own account, or together with one or more other such customers (who are
related entities), uses: (i) 100 gigawatt hours or more of electricity at a
single site in this State in any year, or
(ii) 100 gigawatt hours or more of
electricity at more than one site in this State in any year, at least one of
which uses 50 gigawatt hours or more of electricity in that year, or
(b) a
related entity of a customer referred to in paragraph (a), whether or not the
entity is a customer.
"market customer" means a customer that has classified any of its electricity
loads as a market load and that is registered with AEMO as a market customer
under the National Electricity Code .
"NSW pool coefficient" means the average greenhouse gas emissions intensity of
electricity sent out to customers in the State, expressed in tonnes of
carbon dioxide equivalent per megawatt hour, as determined by the Tribunal
under this Part.
"register" means a register required to be kept by the Scheme Administrator
under this Part.
"register of abatement certificates" means the
register of abatement certificates required to be kept by the
Scheme Administrator under this Part.
"register of accredited abatement certificate providers" means the
register of accredited abatement certificate providers required to be kept by
the Scheme Administrator under this Part.
"related body corporate" of a person has the same meaning as it has in the
Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth.
"related entity" of a customer means a person (whether or not a customer) who
is: (a) a related body corporate of the customer, or
(b) a beneficiary of a
trust of which the customer is or has at any time been a trustee, or
(c) a
trustee of a trust under which a person is a beneficiary, if the person is a
related entity of the customer because of any other application or
applications of this definition, or
(d) engaged in a joint venture with the
customer or a related entity of a customer.
"renewable energy certificate" means a certificate created under the
Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 of the Commonwealth.
"Scheme Administrator" means the person or body on whom the functions of
Scheme Administrator are conferred by or under this Part.
"State greenhouse gas benchmark" -see section 97B (1).
"State population" for a compliance period means the population of the State
for the compliance period, as determined by the Tribunal under this Part.
"State significant development" has the same meaning as it has in the
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .
"termination day" means the day prescribed by proclamation under section 97KB
(1) (a).
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