Corporate

This page contains the following information about Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator’s (ORERs) corporate activities:

• Corporate Plan
• Regulatory Plan
• Appealing a Renewable Energy Regulator's Decision or Lodging Objections
• Information Publication Plan
• Organisation chart
• Contract Listing - Senate order
• File Lists - Senate order (Harradine motion)
• Legal Services Expenditure
• Service Charter.

Corporate Plan

This corporate plan identifies the vision, mission, values, measures of success, outcomes, key focus areas, outputs and organisational structure of the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator.

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• ORER's Corporate Plan 2011-2015 (PDF - 2883 KB)

Regulatory Plan

Commonwealth agencies that have a responsibility for business regulation are required to publish a regulatory plan each financial year.

A regulatory plan covers business regulation. This includes primary legislation (Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 and Renewable Energy (Electricity) Charge Act 2000) or subordinate legislation (Renewable Energy (Electricity) Regulations 2001) which directly affects businesses, has a significant indirect effect on businesses, or restricts competition.

A regulatory plan provides details relating to legislative changes that have occurred or are proposed within a given financial year. Regulatory plans allow businesses an opportunity to view changes:

• to business regulation which have occurred since the beginning of the previous financial year; and
• planned in the current financial year which could lead to changes to business regulation.

A regulatory plan does not include information about regulation amendments that:

• are minor or machinery in nature, as these amendments do not substantially alter existing arrangements; and
• anticipate activity about which it would be inappropriate to publish information on grounds of confidentiality. 

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• ORER's regulatory plan for 2011-2012 (PDF 241 KB)
• ORER's regulatory plan for 2010-2011 (PDF 150 KB)

Appealing a Renewable Energy Regulator's Decision or Lodging Objections

A person who has received a decision from the Renewable Energy Regulator may be able to lodge a formal review request for the Renewable Energy Regulator to reconsider the decision under Part 6 of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 (the Act), Part 8 of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Regulations 2001 (the Regulations) or Regulation 11 of the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment (Transitional Provision) Regulations 2010 (the Amendment Regulations). Tables of reviewable decisions are provided in each of the below fact sheets.

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• Appealing a Renewable Energy Regulator's decision or lodging objections under the Act (PDF 239 KB)
• Appealing a Renewable Energy Regulator's decision under the Regulations (PDF 158 KB)
• Appealing a Renewable Energy Regulator's decision under the Amendment Regulations (PDF 160 KB)

Information Publication Plan

The Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator (ORER) is an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act). As such, ORER is required to comply with the requirements of the Information Publication Scheme (IPS), under which ORER must publish:

• the Information Publication Plan (agency plan) which outlines how ORER proposes to meet the IPS requirements, and
• certain types of information specified in the FOI Act.

The agency plan describes:

• what information ORER intends to publish;
• how and to whom ORER proposes to publish the information; and
• how ORER proposes to comply with the scheme.

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• ORER's Information Publication Plan (PDF - 447 KB)

Organisation Chart

• ORER's Organisation Chart (JPEG 122 KB)

ORER Disclosure Log

Under the Plan, ORER will publish information that has been released under the FOI Act (known as a disclosure log). Such information will be listed under this heading.

Date of access	FOI request	Description of documents	Other information
25 November 2011	Summary of the inspections of solar panels installed under the small-scale renewable energy scheme administered by ORER Information provided by the contractors to ORER and the Minister's office in relation to inspections of solar panels installed under the small-scale renewable energy scheme administered by ORER. Any warnings from ORER of possible risks and danger to householders regarding faulty installations. Any estimates of how many houses may have faulty panels installed.	Two documents were identified as falling within the scope of parts 1 and 2 of this request.  No documents were found to come within the scope of Part 3 of this request.	Two documents partially released to the applicant with redactions for personal information under Section 47F - Personal information.

 

Contract Listing - Senate Order

In response to a Senate Order dated 20 June 2001, the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator will include the following contract information on this website:

• each contract entered into by the ORER which has not been fully performed or which has been entered into during the previous 12 months, and which provides for a consideration to the value of $100,000 or more;
• the contractor, the amount of the consideration, the subject matter of each such contract, the commencement date of the contract, the duration of the contract and the 12 month period relating to the contract listings;
• whether each such contract contains provisions requiring the parties to maintain confidentiality or any of its provisions, or whether there are any other requirements of confidentiality, and a statement of the reasons for the confidentiality; and
• an estimate of the cost of complying with this order and a statement of the method used to make the estimate.

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• Financial year 2010-11 Senate Order on Departmental and Agency contracts listing relating to the period 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 (PDF 64 KB)
• Calendar year 2010 Senate Order on Departmental and Agency contracts listing relating to the period 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010 (PDF 72 KB)
• Calendar year 2009-10 Senate Order on Departmental and Agency contracts listing relating to the period 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010 (PDF 72 KB)
• Calendar year 2008-09 Senate Order on Departmental and Agency contracts listing relating to the period 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2009 (PDF - 34 KB)
• Calendar year 2007-08 Senate Order on Departmental and Agency contracts listing relating to the period 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008 (PDF - 43 KB)
• Calendar year 2007 Senate Order on Departmental and Agency contracts listing relating to the period 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007 (PDF - 32 KB)

File Lists - Senate Order (Harradine motion)

Indexed list of files created by the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator

On 14 November 1994, the Senate agreed to a motion by Senator Harradine requiring all Australian Government departments and agencies to produce an indexed list of files every six months for tabling before parliament. The production of the list is intended to make the operations of government more transparent to the Australian public.

As part of the Governments ongoing commitment to give Australians greater access to relevant government information quickly and easily, the original Senate Order was amended in 1998 and now requires departments and agencies to also list these files on their websites.

The lists are tabled twice a year, once in the Spring sittings and once in the Autumn sittings:

• Spring sittings - files created in the preceding July to December; and
• Autumn sitting - files created in the preceding January to June.

Download files created between:

• 1 January and 30 June 2011 (PDF 45 KB)
• 1 July and 31 December 2010 (PDF 92 KB)
• 1 January and 30 June 2010 (PDF 241 KB)
• 1 July and 31 December 2009 (PDF 263 KB)
• 1 January and 30 June 2009 (PDF 213 KB)
• 1 July and 31 December 2008 (PDF 63 KB)
• 1 January and 30 June 2008 (PDF 134 KB)
• 1 July and 31 December 2007 (PDF 15 KB)

Previous files can be viewed at http://www.environment.gov.au/about/files/index.html. 

Arrangement of file listings

In accordance with the terms of the Senate Order the following files have been excluded:

• case related files;
• files related to internal administration of the Agency (eg. staff and personnel matters, property management, finance);
• cabinet related material.

Individual words or portions of a title replaced with XXXXX have been deleted due to:

• commercially confidential information; or
• identifiable personal information.

Access to Individual Files

Under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act), members of the public can seek access to documents contained on any of the files listed here. To make a request under the FOI Act you should write to the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator at the address below, state that the request is made pursuant to the FOI Act and indicate which documents you are seeking. The request should be accompanied by a $30 application fee (cheque or money order made payable to the Collector of Public Monies). The letter should be addressed to:

The FOI Coordinator
Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator
GPO Box 621
Canberra ACT 2601

The FOI Act provides that further charges may be imposed for processing requests. Note also that the provision of access to documents is subject to the FOI Act which provides a number of exemptions from release.

The FOI Coordinator can be contacted on:
Phone: (02) 6159 7700
Fax: (02) 6159 7780
orer@orer.gov.au

For more information, visit - Requirements of the Senate Order for the Production of Indexed Lists of Departmental and Agency Files. 

Legal Services Expenditure

Under paragraph 11.1 (ba) of the Legal Services Directions 2005, all agencies prescribed under the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 are required to make their legal services expenditure for the financial year publicly available. Listed below are Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator's (ORER's) statements of legal services expenditure for relevant financial years.

2009-10

2008-09

2007-08

2006-07

2005-06

Service Charter

I am pleased to introduce the Service Charter for the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator.

It explains what we do, how we provide our services and our commitments to you.

We are committed to improving our client services and we will review this charter annually.

Andrew Livingston
Renewable Energy Regulator

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• The Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator service charter (PDF - 163 KB)
• Service charter feedback form (PDF - 89 KB)