Commission chair address to 7th Annual New Zealand Power Summit

Key issues discussed by Roy Hemmingway included challenges to system security, market workability, improvements to winter supply for 2005/06, base-load generation investment, transmission issues, development on hedge market and compliance improvements, service accountability, as well as Commission planning on demand side, vertical integration and regional concentration. Major issues highlighted included limits to central planning, dry sequence reserves, electricity efficiency intervention.

Commission Chair Roy Hemmingway's address to the 7th Annual New Zealand Power Summit 'Investing in Electricity Networks and Distribution', Auckland, Tuesday 15 March 2005:  

• The Chair's presentation notes