Pursuant to Regulation 196 of the Electricity Governance Regulations 2003, the Electricity Commission gives the following notice.
N o t i c e
1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice is the Electricity Governance Regulations (Exemption No. 21 (Alinta ENZ Limited)) Exemption Amendment Notice 2007.
(2) In this notice, the Electricity Governance Regulations (Exemption No. 21 (Alinta ENZ Limited)) Exemption Notice 2005*is called the "principal notice".
(3) This notice comes into force on the day after the date on which it is notified in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. Amendment to principal notice-(1) The principal notice provides an exemption from the requirement to comply with Rule 4.11 of Section III of Part G of the Electricity Governance Rules 2003.
(2) The principal notice is amended by omitting the date on which the exemption is stated to expire (31 March 2007) and substituting 31 July 2007.
3. Reasons for amendment-The reasons for this amendment are as follows:
(a) The existing exemption has allowed Alinta to operate within the requirements of the dispatch rules by allowing a wider tolerance to compliance with dispatch instructions;
(b) New rules governing the offer and dispatch of approved co-generation plant operators come into force on 1 June 2007; and
(c) Extending the exemption will allow time for Alinta to make, and the Electricity Commission time to assess, an application for co-generator status that would allow Alinta to operate under the new rules without the need for an exemption.
Dated at Wellington this 27th day of March 2007.
For and on behalf of the Electricity Commission:
PETER HARRIS, Deputy Chair.
*New Zealand Gazette, 2 June 2005, No. 86, page 2049
New Zealand Gazette, 16 March 2006, No. 25, page 676