Prescribed class of customers
16 Prescribed class of customers
(1) This regulation prescribes classes of customers for section 44(1) of the Act.
(2) A customer whose annual consumption level, measured in accordance with either of the following, is less than 750 megawatt hours per annum is a customer of a prescribed class:
(a) the customer's actual total consumption at a single site during any consumption period;
(b) in the case of a customer who scales down or expands its operations or energy consumption at a single site – the customer's estimated consumption for the subsequent year at the site, taking the following into account:
past electricity consumption;
(ii) the electricity consumption level of plant and equipment to be powered at the site;
(iii) the operations for which electricity is required to be supplied at the site;
any other relevant factor.
Examples for subregulation (1)(b)
1 Addition of a new building.
2 Retirement of plant or installation of new, more efficient plant.
3 Installation of solar panels.
(3) A customer who was a contestable customer prescribed by regulation 13A(d), as in force immediately before the commencement of this regulation, is a customer of a prescribed class.
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