Wholesale Electricity Market Rules - Amending Rules (18 August 2006) (WA)

1.171	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	18 August 2006
ENERGY
EN401*

ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY ACT 2004
ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY MARKET)
REGULATIONS 2004
WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY MARKET RULES

COMMENCEMENT OF PROVISIONS 2.25, 2.29, 2.30, 2.30A, 2.30B, 2.30C, 2.31, 2.32, 2.33, 2.34,
2.37, 2.38, 5.1, 6.20, 10.1, 10.2 and Appendix 1 OF THE MARKET RULES.
Provisions 2.25, 2.29, 2.30, 2.30A, 2.30B, 2.30C, 2.31, 2.32, 2.33, 2.34, 2.37, 2.38, 5.1, 6.20, 10.1, 10.2
and Appendix 1 of the Wholesale Electricity Market Rules made under regulation 6(2) of the
Electricity Industry (Wholesale Electricity Market) Regulations 2004, are to commence at 8:00am
(WST) on 21 August 2006.

Dated at Perth this 11th day of August 2006.

FRANCIS LOGAN MLA, Minister for Energy.

EN402*

ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY ACT 2004
ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY
MARKET) REGULATIONS 2004

WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY MARKET RULES

Amending Rules

I, Francis Logan, Minister for Energy for the State of Western Australia, under regulation 6(2) of the Electricity Industry (Wholesale Electricity Market) Regulations 2004 hereby make the following amending rules.

These amending rules are to come into force on the day after the date that this Notice is published in the Government Gazette.

FRANCIS LOGAN MLA, Minister for Energy.

Dated at Perth this 11th day of August 2006.

1. Market Rule 4.29.1(b) amended

(1) Deleting the existing clause 4.29.1(b), and replacing it with the following—

(b)	a. Prior to 1 October 2008, if no Reserve Capacity Auction was run for the Reserve Capacity Cycle, 85% of the Maximum Reserve Capacity Price for the Reserve Capacity Cycle divided by 12
b. From 1 October 2008, if no Reserve Capacity Auction was run for the Reserve Capacity Cycle, 85% of the Maximum Reserve Capacity Price for the Reserve Capacity Cycle multiplied by the Excess Capacity Adjustment and divided by 12;

b.	the Reserve Capacity Requirement for the Reserve Capacity Cycle divided by the total
number of Capacity Credits certified by the IMO for the Reserve Capacity Cycle.

(2) Insert a new clause 4.29.1(c), as follows—

(c) where the Excess Capacity Adjustment is equal to the minimum of—

a. one, and