Initial Statement of Opportunities (SOO) 2005

The Commission compiled and published on the web its first draft SOO for industry consultation on 10 May 2005. Submissions were received from 25 parties by the closing date of 10 June 2005. After considering the submissions received, the Commission has prepared the final version of the Initial SOO. The electronic version was published on 8 July 2005. The Commission then prepared a version for printing in which a small number of typographical errors were corrected. In addition, an alteration to the table headings on page 62 has been made. This change had been made to table 26 in appendix 4, but not to the corresponding table on page 62 (table 7). The column headings, Hawke's Bay and Central, have now been correctly transposed.

Although the submissions contained a wide array of suggestions about how the Initial SOO might be improved, the timeframe necessary to finalise the Initial SOO has not allowed the Commission to adopt many of these suggestions. Accordingly, the final version of the Initial SOO is not particularly different to the draft version.

However, many of the suggestions received in submissions have significant merit. These need to be considered carefully as to how they could be incorporated into future SOOs.

The Commission has also prepared an explanatory paper as supplementary material to this Initial SOO. The explanatory paper discusses the submissions received and the Commission's response to the issues raised.

Initial Statement of Opportunities commentary on submissions pdf [244 KB]

Both the draft for consultation and the final version are available in hard copy by contacting the Commission at:

Jenny Walton
Electricity Commission
Level 7, ASB Bank Tower
2 Hunter Street
PO Box 10041
Wellington
New Zealand

info@electricitycommission.govt.nz

Tel: (04) 460 8860
Fax: (04) 460 8879

Last update on 02 November 2005 02:58 PM