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National Greenpower Accreditation Program Annual Compliance Audit National GreenPower Accreditation Program Annual Compliance Audit 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007 Publisher NSW Department of Water and Energy Level 17, 227 Elizabeth Street GPO Box 3889 Sydney NSW 2001 T 02 8281 7777 F 02 8281 7799 [email protected] www.dwe.nsw.gov.au National GreenPower Accreditation Program Annual Compliance Audit 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007 December 2008 ISBN 978 0 7347 5501 8 Acknowledgements We would like to thank the National GreenPower Steering Group (NGPSG) for their ongoing support of the GreenPower Program. The NGPSG is made up of representatives from the NSW, VIC, SA, QLD, WA and ACT governments. The Commonwealth, TAS and NT are observer members of the NGPSG. The 2007 GreenPower Compliance Audit was completed by URS Australia Pty Ltd for the NSW Department of Water and Energy, on behalf of the National GreenPower Steering Group. © State of New South Wales through the Department of Water and Energy, 2008 This work may be freely reproduced and distributed for most purposes, however some restrictions apply. Contact the Department of Water and Energy for copyright information. Disclaimer: While every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that this document is correct at the time of publication, the State of New South Wales, its agents and employees, disclaim any and all liability to any person in respect of anything or the consequences of anything done or omitted to be done in reliance upon the whole or any part of this document. DWE 08_258 National GreenPower Accreditation Program Annual Compliance Audit 2007 Contents Section 1 | Introduction........................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Background......................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Audit Scope......................................................................................................................... 1 1.3 Audit Methodology .............................................................................................................. 1 1.4 Limitations and Exceptions ................................................................................................. 2 1.5 Structure of this Report ....................................................................................................... 3 1.6 List of Abbreviations............................................................................................................ 3 Section 2 | National GreenPower Accreditation Program 2007 .......................................................... 4 2.1 Overview ............................................................................................................................. 4 2.2 GreenPower Products......................................................................................................... 4 2.2.1 Rules of the Program.............................................................................................. 5 2.2.2 Mandatory Renewable Energy Target.................................................................... 5 2.2.3 NSW Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scheme (GGAS) ............................................. 5 2.2.4 GreenPower Generators......................................................................................... 6 2.3 Participation ........................................................................................................................ 7 2.3.1 Reporting Period..................................................................................................... 7 2.3.2 GreenPower Product Providers/Products............................................................... 7 2.4 Changes to GreenPower Products ..................................................................................... 8 2.5 GreenPower Customers ................................................................................................... 11 2.6 GreenPower Purchases and Sales................................................................................... 14 2.6.1 GreenPower Events, Events Customers and Events Sales................................. 16 2.6.2 GreenPower Generation Sources ........................................................................ 17 2.7 Energy from ‘Existing’ and ‘New’ GreenPower Generators.............................................. 17 2.7.1 Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) Allocations ................................................ 19 2.7.2 Concessions ......................................................................................................... 20 2.8 New GreenPower Generators........................................................................................... 20 2.9 Marketing Compliance ...................................................................................................... 22 Section 3 | Audit Process and Criteria............................................................................................... 25 3.1 Audit Process.................................................................................................................... 25 3.1.1 Technical Audit Process ....................................................................................... 25 3.1.2 National GreenPower Accreditation Criteria......................................................... 25 Section 4 | ActewAGL - GreenChoice ............................................................................................... 28 Section 5 | AGL - Cleangreen............................................................................................................ 30 ii | NSW Department of Water and Energy, December 2008 National GreenPower Accreditation Program Annual Compliance Audit 2007 Section 6 | AGL - Green Energy........................................................................................................ 32 Section 7 | AGL – Green Living......................................................................................................... 34 Section 8 | AGL – Green Spirit .......................................................................................................... 36 Section 9 | Alinta GreenPower .......................................................................................................... 38 Section 10 | ARK Climate.................................................................................................................. 40 Section 11 | Aurora Energy - AuroraGreen ....................................................................................... 42 Section 12 | Australian Power & Gas - Greentricity........................................................................... 44 Section 13 | Click Energy – ClickNatural........................................................................................... 46 Section 14 | Climate Friendly – Climate Neutral Power .................................................................... 48 Section 15 | Country Energy – countrygreen ....................................................................................50 Section 16 | COZero – GreenEnergy ................................................................................................ 52 Section 17 | Domayne – Domayne GreenPower .............................................................................. 54 Section 18 | EnergyAustralia – PureEnergy...................................................................................... 56 Section 19 | Ergon Energy Queensland – Clean Energy .................................................................. 58 Section 20 | Global Green Plan – GreenSwitch ................................................................................ 60 Section 21 | Integral Energy – Business Green ................................................................................ 61 Section 22 | Integral Energy – Hampton Park Wind.......................................................................... 63 Section 23 | Integral Energy – INgreen / Wyuna Water .................................................................... 65 Section 24 | Jackgreen – Jackgreen Power ......................................................................................67 Section 25 | Momentum Energy – Momentum Energy Green .......................................................... 69 Section 26 | Origin Energy – Earth's choice...................................................................................... 71 Section 27 | Origin Energy – EcoPower ............................................................................................ 73 Section 28 | Origin Energy – EcoSaver............................................................................................. 75 Section 29 | Origin Energy – GreenEarth.......................................................................................... 77 Section 30 | Simply Energy – GreenSaver........................................................................................ 80 Section 31 | Simply Energy – Green@work...................................................................................... 82 Section 32 | South Australia Electricity – GreenEnergy .................................................................... 83 Section 33 | Synergy – EasyGreen ................................................................................................... 84 Section 34 | Synergy – NaturalPower ..............................................................................................
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