120MPolyphase electric lines with required capacity

120M Polyphase electric lines with required capacity

(1) A major electricity company must ensure that—

(a) for the initial period, a sufficient number of zone substations in its supply network are complying substations so that the total number of allocated substation points prescribed in respect of all of the complying substations is not less than 30 (the period 1 minimum points); and

(b) for the intermediate period, a sufficient number of zone substations in its supply network are complying substations so that the total number of allocated substation points prescribed in respect of all of the complying substations is not less than 55 (the period 2 minimum points); and

(c) on and after 1 May 2023, or if Energy Safe Victoria specifies a later date under section 120X, that date, all zone substations in its supply network are complying substations.

(2) Subsection (1)(a) or (b) does not apply to a major electricity company if the allocated substation points prescribed in respect of all of the zone substations in the company's supply network cannot meet the period 1 minimum points or the period 2 minimum points.

(3) A major electricity company is liable to pay—

(a) if subsection (1)(a) or (b) is contravened, a pecuniary penalty not exceeding $2 000 000 for every point forming the difference between the total number of allocated substation points prescribed in respect of all of the complying substations and, as the case requires—

(i) the period 1 minimum points; or

(ii) the period 2 minimum points; and

(b) if subsection (1)(c) is contravened, a pecuniary penalty not exceeding
$2 000 000 for every allocated substation point prescribed in respect of each zone substation that is not a complying substation; and

(c) if there is a continuing contravention of subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c), a pecuniary penalty that is a daily amount not exceeding $5500 for each day that contravention continues after service on the major electricity company by Energy Safe Victoria of notice of that contravention.

(4) This section does not apply to a major electricity company that is exempted from complying with this section under an Order under section 120W and complies with that Order.

(5) In this section—

initial period means—

(a) the period beginning 1 May 2019 and ending 30 April 2021; or

(b) if Energy Safe Victoria specifies a later period under section 120X, that period;

intermediate period means—