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    • Consumers
    • What is electricity?
    • What does the Electricity Authority do?
    • How does electricity get to my house?
    • What are smart meters?
      • What are smart meters?
      • Does my meter need to be recertified?
    • What are my rights as an electricity consumer?
      • What are my rights as an electricity consumer?
      • What are my rights as a medically dependent consumer?
      • What are my rights around disconnections?
      • What happens if the hydro lakes are low?
    • I want to make a complaint
    • How do I switch electricity companies?
      • How do I switch electricity companies?
      • What happens if my retailer goes out of business?
      • Will switching affect the reliability of my electricity?
      • Will I still get my local energy trust rebate if I switch electricity retailer?
    • How do I generate my own electricity?
      • How do I generate my own electricity?
      • What do I need to know about solar panels?
    • Your power data in your hands
      • Your power data in your hands
      • My usage
      • My meter
      • My plan
    • My power bill
      • My power bill
      • Is my electricity bill too high?
      • Why is my electricity bill higher in winter?
      • Is a spot price contract right for me?
    • The Electricity Price Review (EPR)
  • Development
    • Development
    • Why we work on developing the electricity market
    • Our work programme
      • Our work programme
      • Evolving technologies and business models
      • Consumer choice and competition
      • Pricing and cost allocation
      • Risk and risk management
      • Operational efficiencies
    • Advisory and technical groups
      • Advisory and technical groups
      • Innovation and Participation Advisory Group (IPAG)
      • Market Development Advisory Group (MDAG)
      • Security and Reliability Council (SRC)
      • Standing Data Formats Group (SDFG)
      • Settlement and Prudential Security Technical Group (SPSTG)
      • Switch Technical Group (STG)
      • Proposal to amend requirement for advisory group Chairs to be independent
      • Disestablished groups
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      • Why we monitor market performance
      • What we monitor in the industry and market
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      • 2019
      • 2018
      • 2017
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      • 2012
      • 2011
      • 2010
    • Retail market snapshot
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      • New Zealand's retail electricity market
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      • Spot pricing
      • Hedge market
      • Security of supply
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      • Transmission agreements
      • Transmission pricing
      • Grid management
      • Grid reliability standards
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      • Distributors
      • Distribution pricing
      • Losses
      • Distributed generation
      • Connecting and electrically connecting NSPs and ICPs
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      • Metering
      • Electricity information exchange protocols (EIEPs)
      • The registry
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      • Participant identifiers
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      • Clearing manager
      • FTR manager
      • Pricing manager
      • Reconciliation manager
      • Registry manager
      • System operator
      • WITS manager
    • Consumer services
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      • Provide a service with electricity data
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      • Amendments
      • Code exemptions
      • How the Code maps to the Electricity Governance Rules
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      • What is an undesirable trading situation?
      • How to make a claim
      • UTS claims and decisions
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      • Responsible Minister
    • What we do
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      • Working with other agencies
      • Our role in the electricity industry
      • How we are funded
      • Vision, values, mission
      • History of government involvement in electricity
      • What's My Number
    • Strategic planning and reporting
      • Strategic planning and reporting
      • Statement of Intent
      • Statement of Performance Expectations
      • The Authority Work Programme
      • Annual Report
      • Year in review
      • Foundation documents
      • Memoranda of understanding
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  • Frequency regulation: frequency keeping constrained on/off

Frequency regulation: frequency keeping constrained on/off

Overview Consultation Development
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    Decision paper published

    13 Oct 2015  

     

    We have decided to amend the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 (Code) to prevent the system operator from paying a frequency keeping ancillary service agent for either in-band constrained on compensation or in-band constrained off compensation, while providing frequency keeping. The Code amendment promotes the efficiency limb of our statutory objective by increasing the probability that the most efficient providers of frequency keeping are selected in each trading period. The Code amendment comes into force on 1 May 2016. We have set the commencement date to fit with the clearing manager’s programme of work to implement the change.

    We made our decision after considering submissions on the removal of the in-band frequency keeping constrained on and off compensation consultation paper. 

    Decision paper - Removal of frequency keeping in-band constrained on and off compensation

    Decision-paper-Removal-of-frequency-keeping-in-band-constrained-on-and-off-compensation.pdf (PDF, 35 KB)

    Last updated: 13th October 2015

     

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