Breach statistics

From March 2004 to July 2007 the Board has:

• Appointed investigators to formally investigate 50 (8%) of notified breaches;
• Laid three complaints with the Rulings Panel;
• Declined to pursue 590 (92%) of the notified breaches;
• Issued formal warnings for 177 (30%) of the notified breaches where the decision was "decline to pursue".

For the more serious breaches where investigators were appointed the Board has:

• Approved - 21 settlements covering 24 investigations;
• Decided not to lay a formal complaint for 16 investigations that were not resolved by a settlement;
  
• Laid three formal complaints to the Rulings Panel; and,
• Eight investigations currently in progress.

The investigations to date have concerned;

• Part G - Trading Arrangements (36 investigations);
• Part C - Common Quality (11 investigations); and
• Part E - Registry Information and Customer Switching (3 investigations).

The Part G investigations have mainly concerned non-compliance with dispatch instructions (13), incorrect metering information supplied to the pricing manager (8), incorrect bids or offers (5), and incorrect grid owner information in the dispatch schedule (5).

The Part C investigations have mainly concerned incorrect constraints (4), incorrect notification or non-compliance concerning grid emergencies (3), and non-dispatch of reserves (2).

The Part E three investigations have concerned using an incorrect loss code, livening a meter without allocating an ICP, and incorrectly populating the registry.


Note:Notifications can include more than one rule.

Breach statistics