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Quarterly report to the Minister for Energy, January to March 2025
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The Electricity Authority Te Mana Hiko’s latest quarterly report to the Minister for Energy, Simon Watts, summarises what we achieved from 1 January to 31 March 2025.
The report shows that we continued to deliver to the Minister’s expectations and activities in our Statement of performance expectations 2024/25 (amended), with 100% of our performance measures and 100% of our market development activities on track to deliver expected outcomes.
Highlights from this reporting period include:
- continued work to strengthen the wholesale market for winter 2025
- progress across all eight Energy Competition Task Force initiatives to strengthen the performance of the electricity market for the benefit of consumers
- implementation of the Consumer Care Obligations to ensure a standard level of care for electricity consumers
- introduction of mandatory retailer reporting of domestic and small business customer data from August 2025
- selecting six high-value energy initiatives for enhanced regulatory support through the Power Innovation Pathway
- $0.9m less expenditure than budgeted for the quarter.
The report includes mapping to show how our activities align with the Statement of Government Policy for the electricity industry.
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