Electricity Sector Regulations




27 MAY 2009 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 75 1735

System operation and wholesale and related markets

  1. The Commission should promote and facilitate efficient and well-functioning markets and related arrangements for:

• common quality and real-time security
• dispatch and pool rules
• reconciliation and settlement
• information disclosure to improve market efficiency, including:
○ aggregate hedge and contract prices and volumes
○ offers by generators
• minimum prudential standards
• hedge market transparency and liquidity.

Transmission risk management

  1. The Commission should oversee the development of arrangements that will enable market participants to manage financial risk in respect of transmission losses and constraints.

  2. The product developed should include the following broad principles:

• realistic long-term risk management mechanisms should be made available to all parties that face financial risks arising from spot price effects caused by transmission losses and constraints;
• economic efficiency, including the integrity of price signals, should be maintained or improved; and
• solutions should be pragmatic and not overly complex to use.



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🏭 Promoting Efficiency in Electricity Sector Components (continued from previous page)

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Electricity Sector, Efficiency, Transmission, Distribution, Pricing, Incentives, Load Management, Renewable Energy, Investment Coordination, Grid Planning

🏭 System Operation and Wholesale Market Regulations

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
System Operation, Wholesale Markets, Quality, Security, Dispatch Rules, Pool Rules, Reconciliation, Settlement, Information Disclosure, Hedge Prices, Contract Volumes, Generator Offers, Prudential Standards, Market Transparency, Liquidity

🏭 Transmission Risk Management Framework

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Transmission Risk, Financial Risk Management, Transmission Losses, Constraints, Long-term Risk Mechanisms, Economic Efficiency, Price Signals, Pragmatic Solutions