New Zealand Gazette – 2017 – No. 71

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✨ Electricity Levy Rates and Exemption Notice

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 71 — 6 JULY 2017

	Generators	Purchasers	Retailers	Distributors (excluding Transpower)	Transpower
Common quality operations	$0.1887/MWh	$0.1889/MWh		$0.1055/MWh	$0.1055/MWh
Market operations	$0.4228/MWh	$0.4234/MWh
Registry and consumer operations			$0.6117/ICP	$0.6139/ICP
Supply reliability operations		$0.0115/MWh
Transmission operations					$0.0827/MWh
Electricity efficiency operations		$0.1275/MWh
Consumer participation operations			$1.2019/ICP
Other activities	$0.0621/MWh	$0.0621/MWh		$0.0347/MWh	$0.0347/MWh

(2) A copy of these levy rates is available on the Authority’s website www.ea.govt.nz/about-us/what-we-do/how-we’re-funded/levy-rates.

Dated at Wellington this 28th day of June 2017.

For and on behalf of the Electricity Authority:

DR THOMAS BRENT LAYTON, Chairperson, Electricity Authority.

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In accordance with section 11(3) of the Electricity Industry Act 2010 (“Act”), the Electricity Authority (“Authority”) gives the following notice.

Title and commencement—(1) This notice is the Electricity Industry (Exemption No. 204 (Orion New Zealand Limited)) Exemption Amendment Notice 2017.

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

Amendment to principal exemption—Replace clause 3 of the Electricity Industry (Exemption No. 204 (Orion New Zealand Limited)) Exemption Notice 2014, published in the New Zealand Gazette, 28 August 2014, Issue No. 103, Notice No. 2014-au5385 (“principal exemption”), with:

a. “the close of 1 September 2022; and
b. the number of installation control points (“ICPs”) on Orion’s local network (BRY0661) that can be backfed by MainPower’s local network (KAI0111) exceeding 500; and
c. the number of ICPs on MainPower’s local network (KAI0111) that can be backfed by Orion’s local network (BRY0661) exceeding 500; and
d. there having been more than six outages on the existing interconnection point between Orion’s local network (BRY0661) and MainPower’s local network (KAI0111) in the period starting on the commencement of this amendment and ending on 31 August 2018, and for every subsequent year, the period of 12 months starting on 1 September and ending on 31 August of the following year.”
Reasons for this amendment—The reasons for amending the principal exemption are:

a. the Authority granted the principal exemption to Orion New Zealand Limited (“Orion”) for the following

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