Submissions

Submissions

We prepare and provide submissions to a number of regulatory, government department and industry bodies on issues affecting the electricity and gas industries. You can find those submissions here.

Ministry of Housing and Urban Development - Package 4 - Going for housing growth
Infrastructure Commission - draft national infrastructure plan
Electricity Authority - Regulatory roadmap for battery energy storage systems
Ministry for the Environment - Package 3: Freshwater
Ministry for the Environment - Package 2: Primary Sector
Ministry for the Environment - Package 1: Infrastructure and Development
Electricity Authority - multiple retailing and switching
Commerce Commission - Gas DPP4 issues paper Electricity Authority - Digitalisation
Electricity Authority - rewarding industrial flexibility
Gas Industry Company - Gas information exchange protocols
Electricity Authority - Frequency related Code amendment
Electricity Authority - Decentralisation green paper
Ministry for the Environment - waste legislation amendments
National Emergency Management Agency - Strengthening NZ's emergency management legislation
Commerce Commission - Open letter on fibre input methodologies
Commerce Commission - Transpower Western Bay of Plenty major capex project proposal
Gas Industry Company - guidelines for regional critical contingencies
Electricity Authority - cross submission distributed generation pricing principles
Electricity Authority - cross submission competition taskforce 2a distributor peak export rate
Electricity Authority - Distributed generation pricing principles
Electricity Authority - Competition taskforce 2b and 2c time-varying retail pricing
Electricity Authority - Competition taskforce 2a distributor peak export rate
Commerce Commission - Water services information disclosure
Commerce Commission - Gas DPP4 open letter
Electricity Authority - Connection pricing and process - cross submission
Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment - Commerce Act targeted review
Parliament Select Committee - Resource Management Amendment Bill

 

Electricity Authority - Distribution connection pricing

Electricity Authority - Network connections project stage 1

Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment – extension of the LV voltage range

Te Waihanga Infrastructure Commission - National Infrastructure Plan - testing our thinking

Electricity Authority - Forecasting provisions for intermittent generators

Electricity Authority - Common quality Part 8 code proposals and information requirements

Electricity Authority - First steps in improving outage coordination

Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment - Exploring a consumer data right for electricity

Parliament Select Committee - Crown minerals bill

Electricity Authority - Code review programme no.6

Parliament Select Committee - Regulatory systems bill

Parliament Select Committee - Customer and product data bill

Electricity Authority - Addressing more frequency variability

Ministry for the Environment - Emissions reduction plan 2

Electricity Authority - Proposed changes to the default distributor agreement

Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment - Making it easier to build granny flats

Commerce Commission - DPP4 draft decision - cross-submission

Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment - Regime for carbon capture use and storage

Commerce Commission - DPP4 draft decision

Commerce Commission - DPP4 opex step-change information

Parliament Select Committee - Resource Management (freshwater and other matters) amendment bill

Ministry for the Environment - Emissions trading scheme settings

Parliament Select Committee - Privacy amendment bill

Parliament Select Committee - Climate adaptation inquiry

Electricity Authority - Code omnibus three

Climate Change Commission - Emissions budget 4 and 2050 target review

Parliament Select Committee - Fast track approvals bill

Electricity Authority - Future operation of New Zealands power system

Commerce Commission - DPP4 financeability

Electricity Authority - Omnibus two consultations

 

Commerce Commission - DPP4 issues paper

Electricity Authority - Proposed changes to default distributor agreement

Ministry for the Environment - Proposed NPS for Natural Hazard decision making

Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment - Gas Transition plan issues paper

Parliament Select Committee - Emergency Management Bill

Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment - Market measures for the energy transition

Parliament Select Committee - Inquiry into climate adaptation

Ministry for the Environment – Review of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme  

Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet – Strengthening the resilience of the critical infrastructure system  

Electricity Authority – Ensuring an orderly thermal transition 

Commerce Commission – Draft Input Methodologies determination

Commerce Commission – DPP4 process paper

Climate Change Commission – advice on the 2026-2030 Emissions Reduction Plan

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment - Strengthening national direction on renewable electricity generation and electricity transmission

Ministry of Transport – draft Charging Our Future strategy 

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment – Proposed strategies to address energy hardship

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment – Enabling offshore renewable energy 

Electricity Authority – EDB regulatory settings

Government – Water Services Legislation Bill

Government – Natural and Built Environment Bill

Commerce Commission - declining demand options

Commerce Commission - cost of capital