Survey to inform Standardised Demand Flexibility Co-design Group work

The Electricity Authority Te Mana Hiko (Authority) is seeking insights from potential buyers or sellers of a 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.

The purpose of the Co-design Group

We are proposing to develop a demand flexibility product that addresses barriers for prospective buyers and sellers of demand flexibility. It aims to spark innovation and make it easier to offer and access demand flexibility services.

About the Co-Design Group

Timing and survey options

Please complete the survey by 5.00pm, 10 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 or to request a meeting. You can also email us if you have questions.