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Updating common quality requirements to support the power system

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We are updating and modernising the rules related to common quality requirements to ensure they support greater electrification, while maintaining a stable and reliable power system for decades to come.

After considering feedback on our October 2024 proposals, we are progressing with seven of the nine proposed changes to Part 8 in the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 (the Code).

The changes will:

  • improve the common quality information available to network operators and owners about assets that are looking to connect to electricity networks
  • update key terms in the Code to better enable emerging technologies, such as wind and solar generation and battery energy storage systems, to be used.

The changes will come into effect on 1 May 2025.

Updating Part 8 of the Code is an important part of the Authority’s multi-year Future Security and Resilience project. This project is enabling new technologies, addressing security and resilience risks, and building a power system that is reliable, flexible and consumer-focused to support a highly electrified future.

We will consider the remaining two proposals as part of a broader review of Code requirements within our Future Security and Resilience project.

View decision paper and supporting information

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