Standardised Demand Flexibility Product Co-design Group
The Standardised Demand Flexibility Product Co-design Group will work with the Authority to develop a demand flexibility product for the wholesale electricity market.
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Survey
We are seeking insights from buyers or sellers of a potential standardised demand flexibility product to help us understand:
- demand for such a product, the problems it could solve, or the opportunities it could create for your organisation
- key features that would make it valuable eg, duration, notice period, pricing, ensuring availability
- current barriers to these types of contracts and how standardisation or other interventions could help eg, education, price transparency, credit, prudential requirements or on-selling restrictions
- pricing and valuation approaches
- how this product could add value compared to existing options like the super-peak hedge contract.
Feedback to this survey will help the newly established Standardised Demand Flexibility Co-design Group understand the opportunities and challenges involved and help focus efforts on the areas that matter most.
Timing and survey options
Please complete this survey by 5pm, 17 February 2026. Please select the survey option that applies to you:
- Survey for a potential buyer of the product
- Survey for a potential seller of the product
- Survey for those who are potentially both a buyer and a seller of the product or for those who are neither.
If you do not have enough information to complete the survey, or if you would just like to share your views on a standardised demand flexibility product outside of the survey, feel free to email flexibility@ea.govt.nz with your thoughts, to request a meeting, or if you have any questions.
Role
The Standardised Demand Flexibility Product Co-design Group is working with the Authority to develop a standardised demand flexibility product from January to June 2026. Any product implementation would start later in 2026.
The intended work of the Co-design Group is to develop a product that supports arrangements between buyers (such as electricity retailers) and sellers of demand flexibility, including industrial users and aggregators of residential and small commercial consumers.
It aims to spark innovation and make it easier to offer and access demand flexibility services. The group's work will focus on a capacity management product, and it is not proposed to focus on the development of a product for seasonal demand response (such as dry year cover).
The Energy Competition Task Force included this project as a key measure in its proposed industrial flexibility roadmap. However, we see the development of a standardised demand flexibility product bringing a wide range of flexibility sources into the electricity market. It also implements part of recommendation 8 from the Market Development Advisory Group’s report on Price discovery in a renewable-based electricity system.
The development of a standardised demand flexibility product is part of a broader package of proposed initiatives to reward industrial demand flexibility and support a more resilient electricity system
Members
We have appointed the following members to represent a range of sector knowledge and experience.
- Alister Alford, Enel X Senior Manager, Market Development and Regulatory Affairs
- Antony Oosten, Fonterra Energy and Climate Manager
- Daniel Crawford, Electric Kiwi General Manager Wholesale
- Mike Hall, Simply Energy Senior Commercial Manager
- Mitchell Davis, Orion Group Flexibility and Markets Development Lead
- Paul Morrison, Meridian Financial Product Owner
- Stephen Peterson, Utility Data Services Ltd Director
The Chair is Murray Nash, Managing Director at Zusammen, who has extensive experience in financial risk modelling and has previously facilitated two industry working groups for the Authority.
Meeting minutes
The group’s meeting minutes will be published for transparency.