Welcome
Welcome to the Electricity Authority (Authority) website which contains information on the regulation and operation of the New Zealand electricity market for consumers, industry participants and other stakeholders.
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Recent Site Updates
Recent Site Updates RSS2012 investigations
20/02/2012 04:25pm
Review of 26 September 2011 infeasibility situation published
We are currently consulting on:
Decision-making and economic framework for transmission pricing methodology review
Starting: 26/01/2012, Ending: 24/02/2012 5:00pm
Electricity Information Exchange Protocols – Proposed amendments
Starting: 17/01/2012, Ending: 02/03/2012 5:00pm
Retail Advisory Group discussion paper: Retail customers in retailer default situations
Starting: 07/02/2012, Ending: 19/03/2012 5:00pm
Retail Advisory Group discussion paper: Investigating barriers facing small-scale distributed generation
Starting: 07/02/2012, Ending: 19/03/2012 5:00pm
Model use-of-system agreements
Starting: 15/02/2012, Ending: 28/03/2012 4:00pm
Latest News
Market Brief - 21 February 2012
21/02/2012 8:59am
Information on the Market #7 - Price forecasting via the hedge market
21/02/2012 8:49am
Market Brief - 14 February 2012
14/02/2012 8:58am
Market Brief - 7 February 2012
07/02/2012 8:59am
Market Brief - 31 January 2012
31/01/2012 8:58am
Events
Hot Topics
Locational Price Risk Technical Group
The Electricity Authority is calling for nominations for an additional member/s for the LPRTG. Nominations must be received by 5pm on Friday 24 February 2012.
Hedge market development
On the 21 November 2011 the Authority published an information paper that analyses the costs and benefits of tighter market-making arrangements for New Zealand electricity futures traded on the Australian Securities Exchange. The Authority invites feedback from stakeholders on this cost-benefit analysis by 17 January 2012.
Decisions & claims
Final decision and actions regarding 26 March 2011 UTS
Consumer switching campaign launch - What’s My Number
The Authority launched an information campaign on May 29, 2011 called What’s My Number, to provide consumers with detailed information about the ability to switch, the ease of switching and potential savings they can make on their electricity bills by switching.
Programmes
Priority projects
The priority projects are focused on developments to strengthen competition, improve investment and supply signals, and monitor industry and market performance, in line with the priority areas identified in the Government's Ministerial Review of Electricity Market Performance 2009.
Work programmes
This section contains the Authority's current and earlier work programmes relating to: the priority projects, the wholesale and retail market, power system operations and common quality, and transmission.
