Page 2042 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 4 June 2019

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That clauses 12 to 17 be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Clauses 12 to 17 agreed to.

Remainder of bill, by leave, taken as a whole and agreed to.

Bill agreed to.

Sitting suspended from 11.59 am to 2.00 pm.

Questions without notice

Electricity—feed-in tariff

MR COE: My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability. Minister, how much extra have Canberrans had to pay for electricity as a result of Evoenergy’s mistakes in administering the feed-in tariff?

MR RATTENBURY: As Mr Coe I am sure is aware, the ACT government has commissioned an audit of this matter. I am not able to answer Mr Coe’s question at this point in time because that audit is currently underway. What I can tell the chamber is that the directorate has identified concerns with data that Evoenergy has provided over a number of years. We have raised those concerns with Evoenergy.

Evoenergy has now made an investment in new IT capability to improve their record keeping, and that is now in a much better situation. We are expecting accurate data going forward, and part of the audit process at the moment is to make sure that the new IT system is doing the job that it needs to do.

In terms of the specifics about how much this will cost, we do not know at this point in time. It will depend on the outcomes of the audit. I might say that my anticipation is that it will be a very minor adjustment, if any at all.

MR COE: Minister, when did you first become aware of the data problems, and what was the catalyst that sparked your audit in March of this year?

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