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Electricity Reform (Implementation) Bill 2013
The Electricity Reform (Implementation) Bill 2013 will amend the Electricity Supply Industry
Act 1995 and the National Energy Retail Law (Tasmania) Act 2012 to implement the
Government's reforms to the Tasmanian electricity supply industry.
The Bill will amend the Electricity Supply Industry Act to:
facilitate full retail competition (FRC) in Tasmania by removing Aurora Energy's
current monopoly on small customers;
provide for FRC to be implemented in a staged, sensible manner from
1 January 2014 to transition customers to FRC without disruption;
provide for the Minister to declare retailers operating in Tasmania as Regulated
Offer Retailers or as a Local Area Retailer;
establish the framework for the Tasmanian Economic Regulator to determine the
maximum prices for the standard retail contracts offered by Regulated Offer
Retailers;
provide for the Regulator to declare any other electrical good or service to be a
declared electrical service, subject to a market power and public interest test, and
make a determination for that service;
provide for the Government's electricity concessions to be paid to eligible
recipients under a Ministerial Concession Order;
establish the framework for the regulation of Hydro Tasmania's wholesale
electricity contracts in Tasmania; and
make a number of minor amendments to reflect the transition to FRC.
The Bill will amend the National Energy Retail Law (Tasmania) Act to modify the South
Australian Energy Retail Law, as it applies in Tasmania, in certain ways to reflect the
transition to FRC in Tasmania.