This regulation may be cited as the Energy (Infrastructure Facilitation) Amendment Regulation 2026.
This regulation commences on 12 March 2026.
This regulation amends the Energy (Infrastructure Facilitation) Regulation 2024.
4Amendment of s 5 (Categories of costs for payments from fund—Act, s 90)
(1)Section 5(1)(d)—
omit.(2)Section 5(1)(e)—
renumber as section 5(1)(d).(3)Section 5(3)(a)(ii), ‘under section 122 of the Act’—
omit.(4)Section 5(4)—
insert—publicly owned energy business means a GOC or government company carrying out activities relating to—(a)the electricity industry under the Electricity Act 1994, section 21; or(b)the national electricity market under the National Electricity (Queensland) Law, section 2(1).
5Amendment of s 6 (Matter to be considered for making payments from fund—Act, s 90)
Section 6, ‘section 90(3)(e)’—
omit, insert—section 90(3)(d)
6Amendment of s 8 (Declared documents—Act, s 18, definition assessment documents)
(1)Section 8(2)(a), ‘dated August 2020’—
omit, insert—dated November 2024
(2)Section 8(2)(b), from ‘called’ to ‘dated October 2023’—
omit, insert—called ‘Cost benefit analysis guidelines’, dated November 2024
(3)Section 8(2)(c), ‘dated October 2023’—
omit, insert—dated November 2024
7Replacement of s 9 (Eligible priority transmission investments—Act, s 20)
Section 9—
omit, insert—9Eligible priority transmission investments—Act, s 20
(1)The project described in former section 9(e) continues, from the commencement of this section, to be prescribed as an eligible priority transmission investment for section 20(1) of the Act.(2)In this section—former section 9(e) means section 9(e) as in force immediately before the commencement of this section.
8Amendment of s 12 (Definitions for part)
(1)Section 12, definition anticipated completion date, ‘section 27(2)(b)—
omit, insert—section 26(5)(d)
(2)Section 12, definition anticipated start date, ‘section 27(2)(a)’—
omit, insert—section 26(5)(c)
9Amendment of s 15 (Requirement to give primary PTI allowance direction)
Section 15(1), ‘section 27’—
omit, insert—section 26(4)
10Amendment of s 36 (Obligations of AER for other regulatory control periods)
(1)Section 36(1), ‘(a primary period)’ to ‘section 35(1)’—
omit, insert—(the relevant period), other than a regulatory control period in relation to which section 35 applies
(2)Section 36(2), ‘regulatory control period (the secondary period) immediately following the primary period’—
omit, insert—relevant period
(3)Section 36(2)(a), ‘the secondary period’—
omit, insert—a regulatory year in the relevant period
(4)Section 36(2)(b), ‘primary period’—
omit, insert—regulatory control period (the preceding period) immediately preceding the relevant period, less any amount of capital expenditure for which an adjustment of Powerlink’s regulatory asset base has already been made under this section or section 35
(5)Section 36—
insert—(2A)If, when the adjustment under subsection (2) is made, the total actual capital expenditure incurred for the preceding period is not known, the AER must adjust the value of Powerlink’s regulatory asset base at the beginning of the first year of the regulatory control period immediately following the relevant period to include the lesser of following amounts—(a)the total of the directed forecast capital expenditure mentioned in section 34(2)(a) or part of that expenditure for the priority transmission investment stated in the application to be included in Powerlink’s regulatory asset base as at the end of the relevant period;(b)the total actual capital expenditure for the priority transmission investment as at the end of the relevant period.(6)Section 36(3), after ‘subsection (2)’—
insert—or (3)
(7)Section 36(2A) and (3)—
renumber as section 36(3) and (4).
11Amendment of s 38 (Material change PTI direction)
Section 38(1)(b)(i), ‘optimal infrastructure pathway’—
omit, insert—strategic infrastructure path
12Amendment of s 40 (Transmission and distribution assets for public ownership strategy—Act, s 13)
(1)Section 40, heading, ‘strategy’—
omit, insert—targets
(2)Section 40(1), ‘section 13(3)’—
omit, insert—section 13(4)
13Amendment of sch 1 (Application of National Electricity Rules—priority transmission investments)
Schedule 1, sections 3(b)(i), 4(1) and 5, ‘section 27(1)’—
omit, insert—section 26(4)