Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Electricity Industry Act 2000 - SECT 46D

Orders in relation to advanced metering infrastructure

46D. Orders in relation to advanced metering infrastructure

The Governor in Council may by Order published in the Government Gazette-

   (a)  specify a process for determining who is to be a relevant licensee or
        an exempted retailer;

   (b)  specify the minimum functionality required of advanced metering
        infrastructure supplied or installed by or on behalf of a relevant
        licensee or an exempted retailer and the associated services and
        systems required for its support;

   (c)  specify minimum standards of performance and service that must be met
        by a relevant licensee or an exempted retailer in respect of the
        provision, installation, maintenance and operation of advanced
        metering infrastructure and associated services and systems;

   (d)  require trials of technologies to be conducted by or on behalf of a
        relevant licensee or an exempted retailer to identify the most
        cost-effective methods for the delivery of advanced metering
        infrastructure and associated services and systems and specify the
        nature and timing of those trials;

   (e)  determine the minimum number of customers or supply points (or both)
        in respect of which a relevant licensee or an exempted retailer is
        required to supply or install advanced metering infrastructure and
        associated services and systems;





   (f)  determine the date or dates by which, and the location at which, the
        advanced metering infrastructure and associated services and systems
        must be supplied or installed and the date or dates by which the
        infrastructure, services and systems must become operational;

   (g)  if a retailer is a relevant licensee, specify the responsibilities of
        the licensee on being notified of a customer's election to transfer to
        another retailer, to ensure there is no cost impediment or other
        impediment to that transfer arising from the licensee's provision of
        advanced metering infrastructure;

   (ga) specify the responsibilities of an exempted retailer on being notified
        of a customer's election to transfer to a retailer or another exempted
        retailer, to ensure there is no cost impediment or other impediment to
        that transfer arising from the exempted retailer's provision of
        advanced metering infrastructure;

   (h)  provide for the setting and regulation of the prices, fees and charges
        that a relevant licensee who is a distribution company may charge for
        or in connection with the costs of, or in relation to, the provision,
        installation, maintenance and operation of advanced metering
        infrastructure and associated services and systems;

        (i)    empower the recovery of the prices, fees and charges referred
               to in paragraph (h) from-

   (i)  a retailer who is a relevant licensee or a class or classes of
        retailers who are relevant licensees supplied electricity by the
        distribution company, or all customers of a retailer who is a relevant
        licensee or a class or classes of customers of a retailer who is a
        relevant licensee and is so supplied;

   (ii) an exempted retailer or a class or classes of exempted retailers
        supplied electricity by the distribution company, or all customers of
        an exempted retailer or a class or classes of customers of an exempted
        retailer who is so supplied.