Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) It is also a condition of a distribution authority that the distribution entity--
(a) allow, as far as technically and economically practicable, a small customer to connect a qualifying generator to its supply network; and
(b) credit against the charges payable by the small customer, for customer connection services provided to the small customer in a relevant supply period, the amount of $0.44 per kilowatt hour for electricity that is, at any instant in the relevant supply period--
(i) being produced by the qualifying generator; and
(ii) being supplied to the network; and
(iii) in excess of the amount of electricity being used by the small customer, not including electricity supplied through a circuit controlled by the distribution entity; and
Example of a circuit controlled by the distribution entity--
a remotely switched circuit used for off-peak supply of hot water
(c) give the regulator a report, within 28 days after 30 June and 31 December each year, stating--
(i) the number of small customers who have connected a qualifying generator to the network under paragraph (a); and
(ii) the amount of electricity supplied to the network in the previous 6 month period for which credit was given under paragraph (b); and
(iii) the total generation capacity of all qualifying generators connected to the network.
(2) The regulator must review this section to decide whether its provisions remain appropriate, after the first of the following to happen--
(a) the passing of 10 years after the commencement of this section;
(b) qualifying generators with sufficient capacity to produce a total of 8 megawatts or more of solar power are connected to the supply networks of 1 or more distribution entities under subsection (1)(a).
(3) This section expires on 1 July 2028.