New Zealand Gazette – 2016 – No. 5

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✨ Electricity Industry Exemptions

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 5 — 21 JANUARY 2016

following notice.

Notice

Title and commencement—(1) This notice is the Electricity Industry (Exemption No. 238 (Contact Energy Limited)) Exemption Notice 2016.

(2) This notice comes into force on 1 February 2016.

Exemption—Contact Energy Limited ("Contact") is exempted from the obligation in clause 11.32A(1) of the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 ("Code") to supply consumer consumption information to a consumer for any installation control point where:

a. Contact has used the information to provide any service to the consumer; and

b. Contact has sourced that information from Metrix Limited’s ("Metrix") advanced meter midnight reads, which Contact does not use for billing purposes.
Term—This exemption expires at the earlier of:

a. the close of 31 December 2017; and

b. Contact receiving half-hour information from Metrix.
Reasons for granting the exemption—The reasons for granting this exemption are:

a. the exemption is only needed on a short-term basis;

b. the information provided would not enable the consumer or its authorised agent to make informed decisions;

c. the exemption will have little or no impact on other participants and service providers, and will not affect any other Code provisions; and

d. the exemption meets the requirements of section 11(2) of the Act for granting exemptions.

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of January 2016.

For and on behalf of the Electricity Authority:
Hon ROGER SOWRY, onzm, Member, Electricity Authority.

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Electricity Industry (Exemption No. 234 (Genesis Energy Limited)) Exemption Notice 2016

In accordance with section 11 of the Electricity Industry Act 2010 ("Act"), the Electricity Authority ("Authority") gives the following notice.

Notice

Title and commencement—(1) This notice is the Electricity Industry (Exemption No. 234 (Genesis Energy Limited)) Exemption Notice 2016.

(2) This notice comes into force on the day after the date it is notified in the New Zealand Gazette.

Exemption—Genesis Energy Limited ("Genesis") is exempted from complying with the obligation in clause 15.8 of the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 ("Code") to provide the reconciliation manager with monthly quantities of electricity supplied for each half hour ("HHR") metered installation control point ("ICP") that has a category 1 or 2 advanced metering infrastructure ("AMI") meter.
Term—This exemption expires at the close of 1 March 2017.
Reasons for granting the exemption—The reasons for granting this exemption are:

a. the HHR aggregate data for category 1 or 2 ICPs is not used for market settlement purposes and the reconciliation manager only uses it for comparison purposes;

b. Authority staff are currently preparing a Code amendment proposal to revoke the requirement to submit HHR aggregate data for ICPs with category 1 or 2 AMI meters. It is expected that staff will recommend the Code amendment before the expiry of the requested exemption, and that the amendment would be made without consultation, on the grounds that it would be technical and non-controversial; and