Pursuant to Regulation 194 of the Electricity Governance Regulations 2003, the Electricity Commission gives the following notice.
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1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice is the Electricity Governance Regulations (Exemption No. 117 (Contact Energy Limited)) Exemption Notice 2010.
(2) This notice comes into force on 16 September 2010.
2. Exemption-Contact Energy Limited ("Contact Energy") is exempted from compliance with Rule 3.2 of Part D and Rule 5 of Schedule J3 of Part J of the Electricity Governance Rules 2003.
3. Terms and conditions-This exemption is granted on the following conditions:
(a) This exemption expires on the earlier of:
(i) 15 September 2012; and
(ii) the date upon which the customer switches from Contact Energy to another retailer;
(b) the exemption from Rule 3.2 of Part D only applies to the following installation control points ("ICPs"):
(i) 0014189134HBC96;
(ii) 0015726240EL9CB;
(iii) 0000519820HB023;
(iv) 0010429464EL214; and
(v) 0010432432ELC92;
(c) the exemption from Rule 5 of Schedule J3 of Part J only applies to the following ICPs:
(i) 0014189134HBC96; and
(ii) 0000519820HB023; and
(d) Contact Energy must treat the load at the ICPs listed in paragraph (c) as standard unmetered load for the purposes of recording details of the type and capacity in the registry.
4. Reasons for granting the exemption-The reasons for granting this exemption are:
(a) Contact Energy will incur significant expenditure and complexity in fitting meters to the lights for low consumption volumes;
(b) Contact Energy will incur significant ongoing compliance costs associated with a distributed unmetered load database for low consumption;
(c) the load is static and will have little annual variation. Most changes for static load are changes that can be accurately tracked;
(d) by imposing a condition that Contact Energy treat the load as standard unmetered load, the information will still be recorded in the registry; and
(e) the exemption will have little or no impact on other participants and service providers and will not affect any other rules.
Dated at Wellington this 10th day of September 2010.
For and on behalf of the Electricity Commission:
DAVID CAYGILL, Chair.