ELECTRICITY GENERATION: DRAFT PROCUREMENT PLANNING REGULATIONS OUT FOR COMMENT

ELECTRICITY GENERATION: DRAFT PROCUREMENT PLANNING REGULATIONS OUT FOR COMMENT

• 03 April 2025
• Minerals & Energy
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Mineral Resources & Energy has gazetted draft regulations intended to facilitate planning for the procurement and establishment of transmission capacity by private parties. Input is sought by 3 May 2025.

Developed under the 2006 Electricity Regulation Act, once in force the proposed new regulations will apply to:

• determinations-related consultation requirements
• determinations on transmission capacity procurement from transmission service providers, and
• matters with possible implications for effective determinations implementation.

It is envisaged that, once finalised, the new regulations would not apply to the yet-to-be-established Transmission System Operator SOC Ltd.

Against that backdrop, issues covered in the proposed new regulations include:

• deviation from:
  • independent resource plan imperatives, and
  • a transmission development plan yet to be published
• feasibility studies
• cross-border transmission capacity, and
• cost recovery.

Please click the links below for more information:

• draft regulations

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