β¨ Commerce Act Electricity Regulation
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(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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