New Zealand Gazette – 2009 – No. 75

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✨ Electricity Policy Recommendations



1744 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 75 27 MAY 2009

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 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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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏭 Recommendations on Distributed Generation and Access to Lines

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Distributed generation, Electricity demand, Renewable technologies, Security of supply, Transmission upgrades, Regulatory compliance

🏭 Recommendations on Purchase of Surplus Generation by Retailers

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Surplus generation, Retailers, Contracts, Pricing principles, Itemised billing, Market issues