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Changes to Electricity Information Exchange Protocols

Changes to the standardised formats for exchange of information

  • Consumers
  • Distribution
  • Retail

    • Overview

    Electricity information exchange protocols (EIEPs) provide standardised formats and business requirements to facilitate the reliable exchange of information between electricity industry participants, as well as between retailers and consumers. In 2021, we consulted on changes to EIEP 5A, 13A, 13B and 13C to increase the interruption reason field and unique request identifier. Submissions unanimously supported this proposal, so in 2022 we decided to proceed with the following changes, to:

    • increase the character limit of the ‘interruption reason’ field in EIEP5A from 50 characters to 255 characters
    • increase the character limit of the ‘unique request identifier’ field in EIEP13A, EIEP13B and EIEP13C from 15 characters to 36 characters

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    Project background

    EIEPs enable electricity industry participants and consumers to efficiently exchange regular and/or large volumes of information. There are 14 different EIEPs, covering a diverse range of electricity information regularly exchanged.

    The Electricity Authority has made amendments to EIEP5A in order to provide greater clarity, minimise the impact of planned service interruptions on customers, and enable better decisions to be made from the available information.

    We have amended EIEP13A, EIEP13B and EIEP13C to enable the ‘unique request identifier’ field to allow the use of universally unique identifier version 4 identifiers.

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