✨ Commerce Act Electricity Regulation




29 SEPTEMBER 2008 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 146 3967

(c) determine whether or not to declare all or any of the goods or services supplied by all or any of the identified large electricity lines businesses to be controlled, taking into account the purpose of this subpart; and

(d) in respect of each identified large electricity lines business,β€”

(i) make a control declaration; or

(ii) publish the reasons for not making a control declaration in the New Zealand Gazette, on the Internet, and in any other manner (if any) that the Commission considers appropriate.

Before making a declaration of control, the Commission is required under section 57K(1) to:

(a) publish its intention to make a declaration and invite interested persons to give their views on the matter; and

(b) give a reasonable opportunity to interested persons to give those views; and

(c) have regard to those views.

Assessment and identification of threshold breaches

The Commission has assessed the 17 distribution businesses, and their respective threshold breaches, contained in Table 1 and Table 2, during the assessment period ended 31 March 2007.

Table 1: Breaches Assessed

EDB 2006/07 2007/08
Price Quality Price Quality
Alpine Energy Breach Breach
Aurora Energy Breach Breach Breach
Counties Power Breach Breach
Eastland Breach
Electricity Ashburton Breach Breach Breach
Electricity Invercargill Breach Breach Breach
Mainpower Breach
Nelson Electricity Breach
Network Tasman Breach Breach
Network Waitaki Breach Breach Breach
Northpower Breach
Orion Breach Breach
Powerco Breach Breach
Scanpower Breach Breach
Top Energy Breach Breach
Unison Breach
Vector Breach
Waipa Networks Breach

Table 2: Breaches assessed in this paper for the 2003/04 to 2005/06 assessment years

EDB 2003-2004 2004-05 2005-06
Price Quality Price Quality Price Quality
Nelson Electricity Breach
Network Waitaki Breach Breach Breach Breach
Scanpower Breach Breach


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