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These regulations may be cited as the Hydro-Electric Corporation Regulations 2024 .
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Tasmania regulation
These regulations fix the size thresholds used to decide when a new electricity generating plant is a “major power facility” under the Hydro‑Electric Corporation Act. Regulation 4 sets 40 MW for new plant at Tarraleah (Schedule 1, item 23), 40 MW for pumped hydro from Lake Cethana to an upper reservoir, and 300 MW for other new generating plant. They affect project proponents and the Department of State Growth by determining which projects attract the Act’s regulatory obligations and compliance costs (reg 4).
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Direct links to the current provisions in Hydro-Electric Corporation Regulations 2024.
These regulations may be cited as the Hydro-Electric Corporation Regulations 2024 .
These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.
In these regulations –
Act means the Hydro-Electric Corporation Act 1995 .
For the purposes of the definition of major power facility in section 8(4) of the Act –
(a) 40 megawatts is the limit fixed by regulation for the new generating plant located at the power station listed as item 23 of Schedule 1 to the Act and commonly known as Tarraleah; and
(b) 40 megawatts is the limit fixed by regulation for new generating plant that generates electricity by pumping water from Lake Cethana through a pipe or tunnel to an upper reservoir, in a process also known as pumped hydro energy storage; and
(c) 300 megawatts is the limit fixed by regulation for all other forms of new generating plant.
Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.
Notified in the Gazette on 17 July 2024
These regulations are administered in the Department of State Growth.
Sourced from Tasmanian Legislation Online (legislation.tas.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.
These regulations may be cited as the Hydro-Electric Corporation Regulations 2024 .
These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.
In these regulations –
Act means the Hydro-Electric Corporation Act 1995 .
For the purposes of the definition of major power facility in section 8(4) of the Act –
(a) 40 megawatts is the limit fixed by regulation for the new generating plant located at the power station listed as item 23 of Schedule 1 to the Act and commonly known as Tarraleah; and
(b) 40 megawatts is the limit fixed by regulation for new generating plant that generates electricity by pumping water from Lake Cethana through a pipe or tunnel to an upper reservoir, in a process also known as pumped hydro energy storage; and
(c) 300 megawatts is the limit fixed by regulation for all other forms of new generating plant.
Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.
Notified in the Gazette on 17 July 2024
These regulations are administered in the Department of State Growth.