Module Scope
Does your organisation understand the legal and regulatory wholesale energy obligations they must comply with?
Is your organisation required to comply with the National Electricity Law or National Gas Law?
Does your organisation understand the legal requirements for generating, distributing, transmitting electricity and gas to retailers?
Does your organisation understand how to navigate and comply with fundamental legislative and compliance requirements that surround the energy wholesale framework in Australia?
Module Application
The ENERGY WHOLESALE module covers the following frameworks:
- Wholesale Energy Framework
- National Electricity Market
- National Electricity Rules
- Wholesale Electricity Market
- Wholesale Electricity Rules
- Interim Northern Territory Electricity Market
- Wholesale Gas Framework
- National Gas Rules
The ENERGY WHOLESALE module also provides information to organisations in how to
apply comply with legal responsibilities when doing the following:
- Generation
- Transmission
- Distribution
- Contracts
- Pricing
- Market participant registration
- Market principles
- Power system security and reliability
- Gas market operation
- Access arrangements
- Wholesale electricity licensing
- Wholesale gas licencing
- Wholesale metering
- Dispute management processes
- Market fees
- Facility registration
- The Reserve Capacity Mechanism
- The Real-Time Energy Market
- The Short-Term Energy Market
- Settlement process
- Reviewable decisions and dispute
The ENERGY WHOLESALE module also comprehensively covers the requirements surrounding energy in Australia including:
- Environmental Costs
- Confidential information retention
- Price and revenue regulation
- Greenhouse gas reporting
- Anti-competitive conduct
- Renewable energy
Wholesalers including distributors, transmitters and generators, their employees and authorised individuals are all expected to be familiar with the broad landscape of legal and regulatory obligations to which they are subject as well as more specific obligations relevant to the particular sector in which they are operating. The ENERGY WHOLESALE module should be subscribed to by every organisation that works with electricity and gas. The aim of the module is to equip the subscriber with knowledge of their requirements under the National Electricity and National Gas Laws and Rules and the relevant systems and processes that should be implemented to ensure an effective compliance management system within the organisation.
The specific questions and answers covered by the module are:
- How to determine the licensing requirements to carry out selling and supplying electricity and gas to retailers
- How to comply with licensing conditions for selling, supplying, distributing, transmitting, and generating gas and electricity
- How to comply with the National Electricity Law and National Electricity Rules
- How to comply with the National Gas Law and National Gas Rules
- How to comply with the Western Australia Energy Framework
- How to comply with conditions for selling and generation of energy
- How to obtain a generation registration
- How to obtain an exemption from generator registration
- How to comply with connection requirements for Scheduled, Embedded and Micro
- Embedded Generators
- How to go follow the dispute management process
- How to carry out metering compliance and manage installation
- How to be a market participant who complies with pricing limits
- How to register as a market participant
- How energy participants must register a facility
- How to comply with market fees, system operation fees, coordinator fees and regulator fees
- How to develop appropriate systems for power system security and reliability
- How to comply with Reserve Capacity Mechanism
- How does the energy participant comply with relevant markets
- How to comply with the settlement processes
- How to comply with the Interim Northern Territory Electricity Market Framework
- How to obtain a wholesale electricity licence for selling, supply, distribution and transmission
- How to comply with the wholesale gas framework
- How to register pipelines
- How to comply with settlement statements and timetable procedure
- How to gas and electricity reports to the Australian Energy Regulator
- How to obtain approval of access arrangements
- How to register as a Bulletin Board reporting entity as part of the Natural Gas Services Bulletin Board
- How to comply with price and revenue regulation
- How to participate in the Declared Wholesale Gas Market Rules
- How to comply with Short Term Market Trading rules
- How to obtain wholesale gas licences for selling, supply, distribution and transmission
- How to comply with wholesale market metering
- How to appoint a Metering Coordinator
- How to obtain registration for Metering Providers, Metering Data Providers and Network Managers
- How to provide meter data and maintain a metering register
- How to comply with privacy requirements
- How to fulfil renewable energy duties
- How to strive for continuous improvement within energy wholesale system
The ENERGY WHOLESALE module covers all an organisation’s obligations for selling and supplying gas and electricity to retailers including application of the Australian Standards and demonstrates practical assistance and guidance to ensure that these obligations are complied with through the implementation and maintenance of best practice processes throughout the organisation.
Significantly large penalties can be imposed if the organisation fails to meet the legislative obligations. The penalties that apply to generators, distributors and transmitters are, in some cases, also applicable to employees especially managers and supervisors who permitted the offence to occur. Such penalties can include pecuniary penalties, as well as criminal penalties resulting in imprisonment. The range of consequences that may be imposed on energy wholesale organisations are discussed in detail in this module.
The ENERGY WHOLESALE module covers the role and responsibilities of an organisation. It does not cover the role or actions to be taken by consumers in the event of a breach of regulations or obligations by an organisation.