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That the Licensee will have a connection agreement with Transend in accordance with the Code and that, pending finalisation of the connection agreement, Transend has undertaken to enter an interim agreement with the Licensee based upon the existing connection agreement with Hydro Tasmania as it applies to the Bell Bay Power Station.
The site has historically been subject to overgrazing and currently comprises degraded, wooded grassland.
The period from the end of October 2007 to the end of May 2008 was the driest in the preceding 75 years, with storages dipping to 16.5 per cent in early June 2008, the lowest they had been in 40 years.The significant energy security, environmental and water management challenges presented by this situation were managed, while balancing higher costs, by protecting declining storages with increased Basslink imports and gas generation at Bell Bay Power Station.
During this period Basslink and the decommissioned Bell Bay Power Station were used extensively to help keep storages up.
It is noted by the Department that this growth rate does not take account of electricity that would be required by a proposed magnesium smelter and its electricity supply from Tasmania’s Bell Bay Power Station that has been converted from running on oil to natural gas (Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources 2004).
Not only will it augment supply for industrial and manufacturing purposes with the conversion of Bell Bay Power Station from oil to gas, 20 per cent of Tasmania’s electricity needs are now being met by electricity generated from natural gas6.
Included in the sale agreement is a regime for the indemnification of the purchaser in respect of contamination of the Bell Bay Power Station site, particularly in respect of personal injury and latent contamination on the site.
The Committee notes that within weeks of being advised that water storages are at a satisfactory level Bell Bay Power Station was fired up for energy generation.
In addition to the above matters, the Tasmanian Government also provided to the Commission additional details relating to the separation, conversion and expansion of the Bell Bay Power Station and to the 300 MW limit on southward flows on Basslink.
This risk is quite significant given the: • age of the Bell Bay Power Station and its uncertain long term future; • fact that hydro inflows have been approximately equivalent to 2,000 GWh per annum below their long term average for the past two years, with no current sign of this changing; • energy available from a 130 MW wind farm is approximately 400 GWh per annum21; and• large impact that a prolonged Basslink outage would have on electricity security in Tasmania.