To reduce regulatory compliance cost and give consumers more flexibility to manage their electricity requirements, we intend to enhance the Central Intermediary Scheme by extending it to all contestable consumers with embedded generation (EG) capacity (either IGS or non-IGS) below 10 MW (“Enhanced CIS”or“ECIS”):

a. Today, each contestable consumer already has the option to sell electricity in the SWEM either as a direct market participant, or they could appoint a third-party as the market participant to sell electricity on their behalf. With the proposed ECIS, a contestable consumer with EG capacity below 10 MW will be able to sell and get paid for electricity in the SWEM through SP Services, thus avoiding the need to register with EMC and be bound by the SWEM Rules.

b. Under the Enhanced Central Intermediary Scheme (ECIS), the contestable consumer will also be able to choose to have its embedded IGS output estimated based on the IGS Generation Profile determined by EMA (instead of installing meters to measure the actual IGS output) for the purpose of paying market-related charges, including the allocated cost of system reserves.

The proposed ECIS is not applicable to EG capacity above 10MW as such generation facilities are required to be centrally dispatched and monitored by the Power System Operator (“PSO”) to ensure system security and reliability. EMA would like to invite comments on the proposed ECIS.