✨ Gas Industry Policy Statement
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a) The facilitation and promotion of the ongoing supply of gas meets
New Zealand’s energy needs, by providing access to essential infrastructure
and competitive market arrangements;
b) Barriers to competition in the gas industry are minimised;
c) Incentives for investment in gas processing facilities, transmission and
distribution, energy efficiency and demand-side management are maintained
or enhanced;
d) Delivered gas costs and prices are subject to sustained downward pressure;
e) Risks relating to security of supply, including transport arrangements, are
properly and efficiently managed by all parties; and
f) Consistency with the Government’s gas safety regime is maintained.
12 It is the Government’s intent that these other policy objectives should apply to all Gas
Industry Co. recommendations for rules, regulations or non-regulatory arrangements
for all parts of the gas industry. In addition, the Government adds the following
objectives:
a) Energy and other resources used to deliver gas to consumers are used
efficiently;
b) Competition is facilitated in upstream and downstream gas markets by
minimising barriers to access to essential infrastructure to the long-term
benefit of end users;
c) The full costs of producing and transporting gas are signalled to consumers;
d) The quality of gas services where those services include a trade-off between
quality and price, as far as possible, reflect customers’ preferences; and
e) The gas sector contributes to achieving the Government’s climate change
objectives as set out in the New Zealand Energy Strategy, or any other
document the Minister of Energy may specify from time to time, by minimising
gas losses and promoting demand-side management and energy efficiency.
Outcomes for the gas industry against which Gas Industry Co. must report
13 The Government expects Gas Industry Co. to pursue the outcomes below and report
against these outcomes to the Minister of Energy. The Minister of Energy invites
Gas Industry Co. to submit proposals for rules, regulations or non-regulatory
arrangements if it concludes that they are required to achieve any of the outcomes
that are specified.
Consumer benefit
• All small gas consumers have effective access to a complaints resolution
system:
o The Government prefers a least-cost arrangement for the proper
handling of consumer complaints. Due to the small size of the retail
gas market, the Government considers that consumers’ best interests
will be served by a joint gas and electricity consumer complaints
resolution system. A single multi-fuel complaints system (which may
include consumers of liquefied petroleum gas) would provide benefits
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