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• About the Commission
  • Background to regulation
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• Advisory groups
  • Common Quality (disestablished)
    • Meetings
  • Hedge Market Development Steering Group (disestablished)
    • Meeting papers
  • Investment Advisory Group (IAG)
    • Meetings
  • Market Development Advisory Group (MDAG)
    • Meetings
  • Project Teams
    • AMI Working Group
    • Code of Practice D5 Review Panel
    • Compressed Air Systems Best Practice Stakeholder Group
    • Constraint Issues Group
    • DRIEPS Project team
    • Load Management Existing Capability Working Panel
    • Locational Price Risk Technical Group
    • Loss Factor Review Panel
    • Model Distribution Arrangements Review Panel
    • Motor Rewind Consultation Group
    • Reconciliation Implementation Project Team
    • Reconciliation Project
    • Registry Review Project Team
    • Scarcity Pricing Technical Group
    • Transmission Pricing Technical Group
    • Value Price Working Panel
    • Wind Generation Investigation Project: Technical Stakeholders Group
  • Retail and Consumer Advisory Group (RCAG)
    • Meetings
  • Retail Market Advisory Group (disestablished)
    • Retail Market Advisory Group meeting papers
  • Security Advisory Group (disestablished)
    • Security of Supply meeting papers
  • Security Advisory Group (SAG)
    • Meetings
  • Transmission Advisory Group (disestablished)
    • Meeting papers
    • Transmissin Advisory Group papers
  • Transmission Pricing Advisory Group (disestablished)
    • Tranmission Pricing Advisory Group meeting papers
  • Wholesale Market Advisory Group (disestablished)
    • Meetings
• Consumer
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  • Energy efficiency
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  • Ministry of Economic Development
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• Contact
• Frequently asked questions
  • Frequently asked questions - Commission
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  • Frequently asked questions - electricity efficiency
  • Frequently asked questions - General
  • Frequently asked questions - markets
  • Frequently asked questions - rules and regulations
  • Frequently asked questions - transmission
• Industry
• Latest Changes
  • 2010/2011 Transmission Prices
  • Amended Exemptions from AUFLS granted
  • Approved Participant Outage Plans
  • Bay of Plenty Interconnection Capacity Upgrade Investment Proposal - Final Decision
  • Call for nominations - AMI Working Group
  • Call for nominations - Scarcity Pricing Technical Group (SPTG) & Default Buy-Back Technical Group (DBBTG)
  • Call for nominations - Standing Data Formats Group
  • Change to Whirinaki offer strategy
  • Clarification on category 2 installation certification status
  • Decision on investigation of self-reported breach by Genesis
  • Deferral of Redclyffe 220/110kV Interconnection Investment Proposal
  • Distribution Pricing Principles and Information Disclosure Guidelines
  • Electricity Governance (Instantaneous Reserve Dispatch) Amendment Rules 2010
  • Electricity Governance (Instantaneous Reserve Dispatch) Amendment Rules 2010
  • Establishment of the Scarcity Pricing Technical Group and the Locational Price Risk Technical Group
  • Exemption notice 40 - Pricing Manager amendment
  • Exemption notice 108 TrustPower Ltd
  • Exemption notice 110 Nga Awa Purua Joint Venture
  • Guidelines on arrangements to assist vulnerable consumers and to assist medically dependent consumers
  • Hydro risk curves
  • Investigation of the Value of Unserved Energy - Questions and Answers
  • Investigation of the Value of Unserved Energy - Questions and Answers
  • Investigation of the Value of Unserved Energy - Request for Proposal
  • Investment Advisory Group meeting papers - 11 February 2010
  • Locational Price Risk Technical Group – call for nominations
  • Market Development Advisory Group meeting papers - 4 February 2010
  • New Whirinaki offer instruction
  • Notice of Intention - Bay of Plenty Interconnection Capacity Upgrade Investment Proposal
  • Notice of Intention to amend AUFLS exemptions
  • Notice of Intention to grant exemption to Nga Awa Purua Joint Venture
  • Notices of intention to grant exemption to TrustPower and to amend exemption 40
  • Part D - Summary of Submissions and project update
  • Recertification of category 2 metering installations
  • Report - The Development of a Liquid Electricity Hedge Market in New Zealand
  • Report on Advanced Metering Infrastructure in New Zealand: Roll-Out and Requirements
  • Retail and Consumer Group meeting papers for 10 March 2010
  • Rule change - Part F schedule F6A & Part H
  • Security Advisory Group meeting papers for 18 February 2010
  • Settlement agreement approved
  • Submissions - Distribution Pricing Principles and Information Disclosure Guidelines
  • Submissions - 2009 Demand Forecast
  • Submissions - Annual Security Assessment 2009
  • Submissions - Approach to domestic retail contracting arrangements – issues and options discussion
  • Submissions - Auto Synchronisation Points Investment Proposal
  • Submissions - Proposed appropriations and work priorities for the 2010/11 Financial Year
  • Submissions - Transparency of charge components
  • Submissions on Reducing the delay for publishing bids and offers
  • Summary of Submissions - Managing locational price risk: options
  • Summary of submissions on Market Development Programme consultation documents
  • System Operator annual review and assessment 2008/09
  • Third Hedge Market Survey Report
  • Timetable - Auto synchronisation points investment proposal
  • Updated work programme calendar
• Legal
• News
  • Business is booming as industry seeks electricity audits
  • Compressed Air Trump Card in Climate Change Debate
  • Electricity Commission announces intention to approve Wellington and Wairarapa grid investments
  • Electricity Commission announces intention to decline NAaN proposal
  • Electricity Commission approves NAaN project
  • Electricity Commission gives final approval to HVDC upgrade
  • Electricity Commission intends to approve $4.1m grid upgrade in Northland
  • Electricity Commission intends to approve $141m Wairakei Ring grid investment
  • Electricity Commission intention to approve HVDC upgrade
  • Electricity Commission launches Motor Bounty Scheme
  • Electricity Commission launches new supply security website
  • Electricity Commission releases Options Paper on electricity market design
  • Electricity Commission releases review of winter 2008
  • Electricity Commission responds to improved hydro situation
  • Electricity efficiency makes dollars and sense
  • Energy efficient bulbs light up 84% of Kiwi homes
  • High Court decision supports Electricity Commission grid upgrade review process
  • Joint Electricity and Gas Complaints Scheme Approved
  • Quality workmanship code delivers big electricity savings
  • Reduce power bills with Rightlight.govt.nz
  • Supply Riskmeter Update: No change
  • World-leading Payback from NZ Electricity Savings Model
• Operation and development
  • Calendar of work
  • Commission updates
    • Commission updates 2004
    • Commission updates 2005
    • Commission updates 2006
    • Commission updates 2007
    • Commission Updates 2008
    • Commission Updates 2009
  • Common Quality
    • 2007 System Operator Procurement Plan
    • Consultation documents
    • Multiple Frequency Keepers project
    • Residual issues
    • System Operator Policy Statement
    • System Operator Procurement plan
  • Corporate
  • Electricity efficiency
    • Approach
    • Introduction
    • Programmes
  • Levies
    • Explanation of Levy
    • Levy rates
  • Market Development Programme
    • Market Development Programme (MDP) consultation documents
    • Monitor Market Performance
    • Property Rights for Load Management
    • Scarcity Pricing and Compulsory Contracting
  • Modelling and forecasting
    • Centralised dataset
    • Commission demand forecast model
    • Consultation document
    • Demand forecasting
    • Generation expansion model
    • Generation Projects
    • Grid planning assumptions
    • Information Supplement
    • Resources relating to modelling group work on the New Zealand Energy Strategy benefit-cost analysis
    • Synthetic wind data
    • Work in progress
  • Requests for proposals
  • Retail
    • Advanced metering infrastructure
    • Audit Summary
    • Auditor Workshops
    • Consultation documents
    • Distributed Generation
    • Metering
    • Model Contracts
    • Protocols
    • Registers
    • Registry statistics
    • Retail Auditor Approvals
    • Retail audits
  • Security of Supply
    • Security of Supply Archive
    • Security of Supply Emergencies - Rolling Outages
    • Thermal Fuel
    • Whirinaki offer strategy
    • Whirinaki reserve energy trigger price (RETP)
  • Service Provider Information
    • Non Business Day
    • Reconciliation Manager monthly service provider reports
  • Transmission
    • Benchmark agreements
    • Consultation documents
    • Distribution Pricing
    • Electricity Commission’s Review of Submissions on Preliminary paper on Transmission Contract Structure & Counterparties
    • Grid Development Proposals
    • Grid investment test
    • Grid reliability standards
    • Grid Upgrade Investment and Review Policy (GUIRP)
    • Grid upgrade plan
    • Images
    • Interconnection Rules
    • Investigation of the Value of Unserved Energy
    • Investment Contracts
    • List of transmission projects approved, declined and currently under consideration by the Commission
    • Otahuhu substation upgrade
    • Part F briefing session
    • Statement of Opportunities
    • Tactical transmission upgrades
    • Transmission alternatives
    • Transmission papers
    • Transmission pricing guidelines
    • Transmission pricing methodology
    • Transmission Pricing Review
    • Transmission to enable renewables - Phase 2
    • Transmission to enable renewables - Phase 1
    • Transmission to enable renewables
  • Wholesale
    • Analysis Paper - Interruptible Load Availability
    • Demand Side
    • Demand Side Bidding Forecasting project
    • Industrial co-generating station register and applications
    • Offer and Dispatch
    • Pricing Process Improvement Project
    • Provision of Market Information
    • Publication of risk management contract information
    • Retailers' Wholesale Market Obligations
    • Wholesale Information and Trading System (WITS)
    • Wholesale market reports
    • Wholesale Market Statistics
    • Wholesale pricing issues
    • Wholesale pricing issues - 29 April 2007
    • Wind Integration Project
• Publications and presentations
  • About the New Zealand Electricity Sector
• Regular reports
• Rules and Regulations
  • Applications
  • Comalco agreements
  • Compliance
    • Breach statistics
    • Case Studies
    • Commission's decisions on investigations on notified rule breaches
    • Compliance conference
    • Conferences
    • Consultation document
    • Investigations and decisions
    • Investigations currently in progress - now closed for parties to join
    • Market Governance Internal Operating Procedures
    • Market Governance Updates
    • Settlements
    • The Commission's compliance process
    • Useful links
  • Exemptions
    • Information on applying for an exemption
  • Participant Registration
    • Registration exempt participants
  • Recommendation to Minister - Regulations
  • Recommendations to Minister - Rules
  • Register of rule and regulation change proposals
  • Rule Changes
    • Archives 2004
    • Archives 2005
    • Archives 2006
    • Rule Change 59
  • Rules-Regulations
    • Historical versions of the Rules
  • System Operator dispensations
  • Undesirable Trading Situation
• Rulings Panel
  • Rulings Panel consultation documents