New Zealand Gazette – 2008 – No. 92

Page 2491

✨ Distributed Generation and Access to Lines



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Distributed generation

  1. Distributed generation is expected to play an increasingly important role in meeting
    electricity demand as the cost of smaller-scale and new renewable technologies
    continues to decline. Distributed generation can improve security of supply by
    creating diversity of fuel types, locations and technologies, and, where
    appropriately sited, helps reduce the need for transmission and distribution
    upgrades. Accordingly, it is important that there are no unnecessary barriers to its
    development.

Access to lines

  1. The Commission should investigate the provision of guidelines or standards for
    domestic scale distributed generation to reduce regulatory compliance costs.

Purchase of surplus generation by retailers

  1. The Commission should ensure reasonable terms and conditions in l contracts for
    purchase of small electricity surpluses by local retailers from generators with
    generation units capable of generating up to 40,000kWh over a year. The
    Commission should investigate and make recommendations:

  • on whether contracts should meet specified pricing principles; and

  • on how contracts should require itemised billing (showing imports and
    exports) by 2009.

  1. The Commission should review contracts from time to time to ensure that they
    remain up-to-date with current market issues.


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VUW Te Waharoa — PDF NZ Gazette 2008, No 92


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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏭 Interrelationship with the Commerce Commission (continued from previous page)

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Distributed generation, electricity demand, renewable technologies, security of supply, transmission, distribution upgrades

🏭 Access to lines guidelines

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Access to lines, guidelines, regulatory compliance costs, domestic scale distributed generation

🏭 Purchase of surplus generation by retailers

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Surplus generation, retailers, contracts, pricing principles, itemised billing

🏭 Review of contracts for surplus generation

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Contract review, surplus generation, market issues