CEOP8079 - Connection Guidelines - Essential Energy

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OPERATIONAL PROCEDURE – Connection Guidelines for High
Voltage Connections and Embedded Generators
CEOP8079
10 ACCREDITED SERVICE PROVIDERS
Under the Electricity Supply Act 1995, customers are required to fund certain works which
are required to enable new or expanded connection to the electricity network. Essential
Energy will advise whether the work is contestable in accordance with CEPG8019 – Capital
Contributions and the parts of the work required to be funded by the Connection Applicant.
If the work is contestable, a Connection Applicant will need to seek quotes from
appropriately Accredited Service Providers (ASPs) to carry out these works.
The ASP must be accredited as an ASP to undertake the type of work proposed. That
accreditation, along with a system of inspecting and auditing of completed works, seeks to
ensure that any work is designed, constructed or installed to provide for the efficient,
reliable and safe operation of the completed works.
The accreditation of ASP is administered by the NSW Department of Trade and Investment,
Regional Infrastructure and Services (DTIRIS). Information about the scheme, levels of
accreditation and currently accredited ASPs is available from the website:
http://www.dtiris.nsw.gov.au/energy/electricity/network-connections/contestable
11 HV ASSETS GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
11.1 Initial Requirements
The design of the electricity works will constitute contestable work and must be carried out
by a Level 3 ASP (accredited to design transmission and distribution works).
Details of the Level 3 ASP selected by the Connection Applicant shall be submitted to
Essential Energy for approval.
Plant and equipment should be designed in accordance with Essential Energy‟s requirements
in accordance with Clauses 7, 8 and 9 of this document as applicable and with the relevant
access standards set out in the following Schedules in the NER:
Schedule 5.2 for connection of generators
Schedule 5.3 for connection of customers (loads); and
Schedule 5.3a for connection of a market network service.
The proposed design shall be submitted to Essential Energy for approval prior to
commencement of the connection works.
If any part of the proposed electricity works are situated on a mining lease, the area of land
the site encompasses and suitable access for vehicles and plant must be excised from the
mining lease (including access and buffer zone). Essential Energy will require the
Connection Applicant to commit to this process as part of the connection agreement.
Significant delays in achieving this may impact on commissioning programs.
The Occupational Health and Safety Regulation 2001 requires all designers, manufacturers,
and suppliers of plant and equipment to provide all available information about the plant
and equipment that is necessary to enable other persons to fulfil their responsibilities, in
accordance with CECM1000 – Safety, Security, Health and Environmental Management, to:
Identify hazards
Assess risks arising from those hazards
23 November 2012 - Issue 7
Approved By: Group Manager Major Customer Engagement
Page 15 of 36
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