System security and resilience
Official Conservation Campaigns: 2019 review
Improving the regulatory settings for Official Conservation Campaigns in the Electricity Industry Participation Code.
Overview
We decided to amend Part 9 of the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 (effective 1 August 2019) to improve the robustness of the Official Conservation Campaign mechanisms, improve the transparency and ease of understanding of hydro risk curve charts, and better represent the actual hydroelectricity situation.
Our key decisions were to count contingent hydro storage for Official Conservation Campaigns and retain the 10% and 8% trigger points (respectively) for starting and stopping campaigns.
We also amended the standing reserve supply determination made under section 136 of the Electricity Industry Act 2010 to ensure contingent storage in Lakes Hāwea and Tekapo can continue to be accessed.
We approved the system operator’s proposal to replace the Security of Supply Forecasting and Information Policy and it is incorporated into the Electricity Industry Participation Code by reference.
Timeline
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2 June 2020
Decision —South Island-only Official Conservation Campaigns to remain in place
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4 July 2019
Event —Stakeholder briefing on project decisions
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18 June 2019
Decision —Changes to Part 9 of the Code and new Security of Supply Forecasting and Information Policy approved
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29 January 2019
Event —Stakeholder briefing
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11 December 2018 - 11 February 2019
Consultation —Review of regulatory settings for official conservation campaigns 2019View consultation -
Project background
We conducted a review of the settings for Official Conservation Campaigns, which included the start and stop triggers, whether to retain both national and sub-national Official Conservation Campaigns, and whether any modification to the Reserve Supply Determination was required.
The system operator simultaneously reviewed the security of supply forecasting and information policy.
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