Source: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2006L01895/Explanatory%20Statement/Text
Timestamp: 2020-03-28 21:07:33
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Regulation 1.1 – Name of Regulations
Regulation 1.2 – Commencement
Regulation 1.4 defines who is responsible for energy use – that is, the user of energy. In general, the entity that purchases or produces energy will be considered to be the entity that uses the energy for the purposes of the Regulations, whether it consumes the energy itself or it allows its consumption by another party who does not purchase it. This approach is intended to ensure that responsibility under the program lies with the entity that has the greatest financial incentive to improve the efficiency of the relevant energy use.
Regulation 1.5 - Energy use threshold – meaning of energy used
Subregulations 1.5(7) and 1.5(8) provide arrangements to allow corporations to use an alternative method to describe the use of energy by an entity, provided the corporation sets out the alternative method in a public report and a report to the Secretary under the Act, and the Secretary approves the method in writing. An approval by the Secretary would be included in the Secretary’s approval of an assessment plan or variation to an assessment plan.
Regulation 1.6 – Energy use threshold – working out use for a group
Regulation 1.7 – Controlling corporation to ensure regulations are fulfilled
Regulation 1.7 provides that, even though the Regulations provide a great deal of practical flexibility by allowing various entities within a controlling corporation’s group to perform such required tasks as preparing assessment plans, undertaking assessments or reporting, the controlling corporation is still the entity that is legally responsible under the legislation for the performance of these obligations.
Regulation 2.1 – Controlling corporation - general
Regulation 2.1 provides, pursuant to paragraph 7(2)(b) of the Act, that a three year exemption, ending on 30 June 2009, may apply to controlling corporations whose main business is electricity generation, or electricity or natural gas transmission or distribution. The regulation further provides that, in order to be eligible for this exemption, the corporation’s energy use from other activities must not exceed 05.PJ in a year, and that the rest of its group also meets these requirements. The exemption is intended to allow a review to be undertaken of how energy efficiency may most effectively be improved in these sectors.
Regulation 2.2 – Group and members of a group - general
Regulation 2.2 similarly provides, pursuant to paragraph 8(4)(b) of the Act, that a three year exemption, ending on 30 June 2009, may apply to subsidiaries of controlling , provided those subsidiaries’ main business is in electricity generation, or electricity or natural gas transmission or distribution. It also encompasses joint ventures or partnerships where a group member is the responsible entity. The proposed regulation would further provide that, in order to be eligible for this exemption, the corporation’s energy use from other activities must not exceed 05.PJ in a year, and that each of its subsidiaries satisfies these requirements as well. The exemption is intended to allow a review to be undertaken of how energy efficiency may most effectively be improved in these sectors.
Regulation 2.3 – Responsible entity – rules for making a nomination
Regulation 2.4 – Group and members of a group – revocation of nomination by responsible entity
Regulation 2.5 – Group and members of a group – revocation of nomination otherwise than by responsible entity
Regulation 3.1 – Obligation to apply to register – content of application
Regulation 3.2 – Obligation to apply to register – form of application
Regulation 3.3 – Exemption from registration on application by corporation – content of application
Regulation 3.4 – Exemption from registration on application by corporation – form of application
Regulation 4.1 – The Register – matters to be entered on Register
Regulation 4.2 – Corporation may apply for deregistration – content of application
Regulation 4.3 – Corporation may apply for deregistration – form of application
Regulation 5.1 – Requirements for an assessment plan – form of plan
Regulation 5.2 – Requirements for an assessment plan – content of plan
Regulation 5.3 – Identifying parts of the group that must be planned to be assessed
Regulation 5.4 – Aggregation of information
Regulation 6.1 – Requirement to carry out energy efficiency opportunities assessments
Regulation 7.1 – Period to which report relates
Regulation 7.2 – Information in report
Regulation 7.3 – Form of report
Regulation 7.4 – Time of making report available
Regulation 7.4 sets out deadlines by which public reports are to be published. The first public report must be published by the earlier of 15 months after the completion of the first five elements of the group’s first assessment, and 30 months after the end of the trigger year. The elements of the Assessment Framework are set out at Schedule 7 to the Regulations.
Regulation 7.5 – Manner of making report available
Regulation 7.5 also provides other options for publishing these reports, such as an abbreviated report in a corporation's annual report, with the full report accessible elsewhere, such as in another publication or on its own website. Those corporations that are members of the Australian Government’s Greenhouse Challenge Plus programme may use the Greenhouse Challenge Plus website to publish the complete public report.
Regulation 7.6 – Period to which report relates
Regulation 7.6 defines the periods that reports to the Secretary are to cover. Firstly, there is to be an interim report to the Secretary that covers the same period as the initial public report. There is then to be a second report that covers the five years starting at the end of the trigger year – ie the whole of the five year assessment cycle. Both of these reports would also cover earlier assessments where corporations are reporting these.
Regulation 7.7 – Information in report
Regulation 7.8 – Form of report
Regulation 7.9 – Time of giving report
Regulation 7.10 – Manner of giving report
Part 8 – Powers of inspection
Regulation 8.1 – Identity cards
Division 1 – Verification of compliance with the Energy Efficiency Opportunities Program
Regulation 9.1 – Verification of compliance
Schedule 1 – Energy use
Schedule 1, Part 1 – Energy and Energy Sources
Part 1 Schedule 1 sets out lists of the types of energy and energy sources that are included in ‘energy used’ as mentioned in regulation 1.5.
Clauses 100, 101 and 102 are entitled ‘Energy’ as the sources listed in those clauses are used to do work without being transformed into a useful type of energy.
The clauses entitled ‘Energy sources’ list materials that generally undergo a conversion process, such as by being combusted or oxidised, to produce energy that is then used. These are clauses 103 to 125.
Schedule 1, Part 2 – Energy that is not treated as energy used by an entity
Schedule 2 – Application to register – content of application
Clause 4 requires the provision of a graphical representation of the group’s corporate structure, limited to the parts of the group that are likely to be assessed.
Schedule 3 – Content of assessment plan
· Current energy use and savings data;
· An assessment schedule; and
· A reporting schedule.
Schedule 3, Part 1 – Corporate structure
Clause 106 provides that where regulation 2.2 applies to exclude one or more members of the controlling corporation’s group from the coverage of the legislation, the assessment plan must describe the effects of this, by identifying the excluded members and their energy use in the trigger year.
Schedule 3, Part 2 – Current energy use and savings data
Schedule 3, Part 3 – Assessment Schedule
Schedule 3, Part 4 – Reporting Schedule
Clause 402 sets out the way that a corporation may make a proposal to report in energy bandwidths, as provided in Schedule 4 clause 2, where it considers that reporting actual energy use would be unreasonable in terms of the corporation’s commercial interests. It provides guidance to the sorts of factors that might be taken into consideration by the Secretary in deciding whether to approve the proposal.
Schedule 4 – Information in reports to the public about energy efficiency opportunities assessments
Schedule 5 – Identity Cards
Schedule 6 – Form of Statement
· Identified;
· Under investigation;
· To be implemented;
· Implementation commenced;
· Implemented; and
· Not to be implemented.
· Previously identified, not yet implemented (pre-assessment cycle); and
· Energy efficiency savings implemented (from 2000 to the beginning of the assessment cycle).
Schedule 7 – The Assessment Framework
· An Intent – an explanation of the key element’s aim;
· Key requirements – the specific actions and outputs a controlling corporation must meet in order to demonstrate that it has satisfied the intent of each key element; and
· Evidence –evidence that a corporation must keep for verification purposes to demonstrate that it has met the key requirements for each key element across all liable entities and sites.