2025/26 Levy-funded appropriations
Consultation
This consultation seeks feedback on the Authority’s levy-funded appropriations for 2025/26, as well as our draft regulatory strategy and indicative work programme for 2025/26.
We seek feedback on three options for our operating funding, the Electricity Industry Governance and Market Operations appropriation:
- Option 1: No change
- Option 2: System operator uplift +$5.7 million
- Option 3: System operator and inflation uplift +$7.8 million
We are seeking support for Option 3, which would enable us to maintain third-party service levels and deliver high priority and high impact work faster. This aligns with Government priorities to boost our work to improve competition and security of supply, to achieve better outcomes for consumers.
About 70% of the Authority’s operating appropriation is made up of third-party service provider costs. The electricity system is becoming increasingly complex, which is resulting in third parties needing to do more and requiring more funding to do so. For example, in 2025/26 there will be an 11% increase ($5.7m) to our system operator service provider agreement, from the significant increase in volume and complexity of its activities.
We propose no change to our other two appropriations that are contingent in nature: Managing the Security of New Zealand’s Electricity Supply and the Electricity Litigation Fund appropriations.
We welcome your submissions to inform our advice to Government on the appropriate levies and funding for our work in 2025/26.
Consultation documents
Make a submission
We welcome feedback via our information portal by 5pm, Friday 13 December 2024.
If you cannot send your submission electronically, please contact appropriations@ea.govt.nz or 04 460 8860 to discuss alternative arrangements.
We wish to publish all submissions to be transparent. If you consider that we should not publish any part of your submission, please:
- indicate which part should not be published and explain why, and
- provide a version that we can publish (if we agree not to publish your full submission).
However, please note that all submissions received by the Authority, including any parts that the Authority does not publish, can be requested under the Official Information Act 1982.