Tactical Transmission Upgrades – application for amended approval costs [Closing date: 2009/05/22 17:00:00 GMT+12]

 On 6 May 2009, Transpower New Zealand Limited (Transpower) applied to the Electricity Commission to amend the approval costs of a number of Tactical Transmission Upgrade (TTU) projects approved by the Commission in December 2005.

• Details of the proposals
  

The Commission is providing designated transmission customers and parties affected by Transpower’s application with an opportunity to provide written comments to assist the Commission in considering Transpower’s application.

To assist the Commission in its consideration, please supply evidence of facts and analysis to support your views wherever possible.

Comments must be received by the Commission by 5.00pm on 22 May 2009. 

Please note that comments received after this deadline are unlikely to be considered.

The Commission’s preference is to receive comments in electronic form (Microsoft Word).  It is not necessary for parties to send the Commission hard copies of their comments, unless it is not possible to do so electronically.  Comments in electronic form should be emailed with ‘TTU – amended approval costs' in the subject header. 

Comments should be sent to:

submissions@electricitycommission.govt.nz

Bronwyn Christie
Electricity Commission
Level 7, ASB Bank Tower
2 Hunter Street
PO Box 10041
Wellington 6143

Tel: 04 460 8860
Fax: 04 460 8879

The Commission will acknowledge receipt of all comments by email.  Please contact Bronwyn Christie at the Commission if you do not receive acknowledgement of your comments within two business days.

To foster an informed and transparent process, the Commission intends to publish all comments received on its website.

Please indicate any documents attached in support of your comments in a covering letter and clearly indicate any information that is provided to the Commission on a confidential basis.  If your comments contain confidential material, please provide the Commission with both confidential and public versions of your comments, in both electronic and hard copy forms.  The responsibility for ensuring that confidential information is not included in a public version of comments rests entirely with the party making the comments.

Parties should note that the contents of comments provided to the Commission will be among the information the Commission holds which is subject to the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA).

If the Commission receives a request for the release of information contained in the comments, it will be required to consider the release of those comments, in whole or in part, in terms of the criteria set out in the OIA.  This would be done in consultation with the party providing the comments.  The Commission can withhold official information in certain circumstances.  The grounds for the Commission withholding official information are set out in the OIA.  Any decision by the Commission to withhold information is subject to appeal to the Office of the Ombudsmen.

In order to test all information contained in comments as fully as possible in a transparent manner, the Commission discourages requests for non-disclosure of comments, in whole or in part.