16Requirements to provide information to energy security target monitor

16 Requirements to provide information to energy security target monitor

16 Requirements to provide information to energy security target monitor

(1) The energy security target monitor may, by written notice to a person, require the person to provide relevant information to the monitor.

(2) A notice under subsection (1) must specify the following—

(a) the information required to be provided,

(b) the form in which the information is to be provided,

(c) the time within which the information is to be provided.

(3) The energy security target monitor may require a person to answer questions in relation to a relevant matter if the monitor believes on reasonable grounds that the person has knowledge of the relevant matter.

(4) The energy security target monitor may, by written notice, require a person to attend at a specified place and time to answer questions if attendance at the place is reasonably required for the questions to be properly put and answered.

(5) The place and time at which a person may be required to attend is to be—

(a) a place or time nominated by the person, or

(b) if the place and time nominated is not reasonable in the circumstances or a place and time is not nominated by the person—a place and time nominated by the energy security target monitor that is reasonable in the circumstances.

(6) Without limiting the persons who may be required to provide information or to answer questions under this section, the persons may include the following—

(a) a person who owns, controls or operates generation infrastructure,

(b) a person who owns, controls or operates network infrastructure,

(c) a small generation aggregator or a market small generation aggregator,

(d) a person who provides wholesale demand response services,

(e) an operator of a virtual power plant,

(f) an aggregator of distributed energy resources,

(g) a person who supplies fuel to generation infrastructure,