Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024A00121:section:104:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024A00121
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 104 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 129342–132196

104  Registration of REGO certificates
 (1) The eligible registered person for a registered renewable electricity facility may apply to the Regulator to register REGO certificates created in respect of:
 (a) the eligible amount of electricity for the facility and a time period; or
 (b) the residual amount for the facility and a calendar month.
 (2) The application must:
 (a) be in the form approved, in writing, by the Regulator; and
 (b) meet the requirements (if any) prescribed by the rules; and
 (c) include the information (if any) that is prescribed by the rules.
 (3) The Regulator must decide to:
 (a) register the certificates; or
 (b) refuse to register the certificates.

Timing
 (4) The Regulator must not register the certificates if the application is made more than 1 year after the end of the time period or the calendar month, as the case may be.

Information must be correct
 (5) The Regulator must not register the certificates unless the Regulator is satisfied that:
 (a) the certificates have been created in accordance with this Act; and
 (b) the information stated in the certificates is correct.

Energy storage systems
 (6) If the registered renewable electricity facility is an energy storage system, the Regulator must not register the certificates unless:
 (a) there is a direct supply relationship between the energy storage system and an electricity generation system, and that direct supply relationship is covered by the rules; or
 (b) the total number of the following is equal to the number worked out, in accordance with a formula or method prescribed by the rules, in relation to the number of megawatt hours of renewable electricity represented by the certificates:
 (i) a number of megawatt hours of renewable electricity that is represented by REGO certificates retired by the Regulator for the purposes of the application at the request of the eligible registered person;
 (ii) a number of large‑scale generation certificates surrendered by the eligible registered person for the purposes of the application;
 (iii) a number of megawatt hours of renewable electricity that is worked out, in accordance with a formula or method prescribed by the rules, in relation to the amount of electricity that has been transferred to the facility from an electricity generation system with which the facility has a direct supply relationship.

Relevant considerations
 (7) In deciding whether to register the certificates, the Regulator:
 (a) must have regard to the matters (if any) prescribed by the rules; and
 (b) may have regard to any other matter the Regulator considers relevant.

Registered owner
 (8) If the Regulator registers the certificates, the Regulator must record in the register that the eligible registered person is the registered owner of the certificates.

Suspended persons
 (9) An application under