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Central-West Orana REZ Access Scheme declaration

23 Dec 2022
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The Central-West Orana Renewable Energy Zone (CWO REZ) Access Scheme was formally declared by the Minister for Energy under section 24(1) of the Electricity Infrastructure Investment Act 2020 on 19 December 2022 and published in the NSW Government Gazette on 23 December 2022. The declaration is available here.

The declaration operationalises the terms and conditions of the CWO REZ Access Scheme, which sets out how generation and storage projects can be granted access rights to planned and new network infrastructure within the CWO REZ and is the primary statutory instrument for the CWO REZ Access Scheme.