Consultation opens on common quality and information requirements

The Electricity Authority Te Mana Hiko is committed to ensuring New Zealand’s electricity future is secure, resilient and reliable.

We are seeking feedback on two consultation papers:

• Part 8 Code amendment proposal – Part 1
• Addressing common quality information requirements

Common quality requirements are a complex and technical area of the Electricity Industry Participation Code, but they can have a big impact on consumers, businesses and the power system. Common quality in the power system ensures that power supply is safe and reliable and does not lead to poor consumer outcomes such as outages or damage to consumer assets.

These two consultation papers are steps in the wider reform of the Code’s common quality requirements, being undertaken as part of our multi-year Future security and resilience work programme.

Our first consultation paper contains an initial set of Code amendment proposals under the Future security and resilience programme. Included in the paper are several proposals to amend Code provisions that appear to not be fit for the purpose of appropriately enabling new and evolving technologies.

Ensuring that common quality information requirements are fit for purpose is a key concern. In our second consultation paper we set out some short-listed options to enable network operators and owners to gather more information about assets on their networks, to help manage any future power quality issues more effectively.

Reviewing the common quality requirements in Part 8 of the Code is a key priority for us. Getting these requirements right will help ensure that consumers can have confidence in the power system delivering a reliable and secure supply of electricity as more solar, wind, and energy storage resources are deployed into the system.

Our consultations are open for six weeks until 5pm 12 November 2024 and we are keen to hear your feedback.

Read our consultation papers and have your say.