Australian Capital Territory
Electricity Feed-in (Large-scale Renewable Energy Generation) FiT Capacity Release Determination 2015 (No 1)
Disallowable instrument DI2015–227
made under the  
Electricity Feed-in (Large-scale Renewable Energy Generation) Act 2011 - Section 10 (FiT capacity release)
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Section 10 of the Electricity Feed-in (Large-scale Renewable Energy Generation) Act 2011 (the Act) permits the Minister to determine that a stated part of the FiT capacity (a FiT capacity release) is to be made available for the grant of FiT entitlements.

The purpose of this determination is to make 200 megawatts of capacity available for a large-scale renewable energy wind auction (Wind Auction II), in the form of a competitive process, to be conducted by the Environment and Planning Directorate in 2015.

As per Section 10 of the Act, this instrument determines:

•	the capacity of the release;
•	a competitive process;
•	the term of the entitlement;
•	the kind of renewable energy source that must be used;
•	the location of a renewable energy generator; and
•	the minimum capacity of a renewable energy generator that may be granted a FiT entitlement under the release

The determination under Section 10 of the Act is a Disallowable Instrument.